Story telling is a powerful way we can learn about ourselves and moral decision
Story telling is a powerful way we can learn about ourselves and moral decision making by entering in to the journey of another as they overcome obstacles, encounter spiritual teachers/guides, and return the world to order. Choose any movie, even if you have seen it 100 times, watch it again through the lens of moral decision making and apply the concepts covered in class to an analysis of the film. Don’t simply tell me what happens in the movie, choose specific parts as examples and critically evaluate what happens.
Chapters 5, 6, 7 in Wells address the point the all people are assumed to be fundamentally the same, thus, ethics is not so much about people as about the quandaries they find themselves in and the decisions they make. The book also says, if one were to sum up universal ethics in one word, that word would probably be “decision”. Everyone has a relationship to government, relationships, commitments, and society and those decisions appear to be common for everybody and what is good for all? But then whom are you leaving out when you say everyone? That is Chapter 6 and what we call subversive ethics – that we need to be equally concerned with the empowerment of those who are often denied a voice by those in power.
Consider the following as you read and watch: What is the logic or reason behind a person’s actions? Is the hero motivated by what will serve the greatest number of people even if it causes harm to some? Or are individual rights being considered as well? Is there an unexpected soul teacher, such as Dante’s Virgil? Do people who are bad deserve to be punished and how does the heroine grapple with this dilemma? Does one need to leave the cave, as in Plato’s Republic in order to see the world differently?
Write a 3-5 page reflection paper and submit
The movie I want the Paper to be written on is the Disney Cars movie.
The book that needs to be used is Introducing Christian Ethics and take evidence from chapters 5,6,7
The only evidence/ quotes can only come from the Wells Book. The movie should not be the entire part of the essay, only a brief descriiption.
