ethics

Presents contrasting perspectives on the religious and secular basis for ethical values, issues surrounding the beginning and end of life, whether religious exceptions should be allowed, and the appropriate ethics for economic activity.

A look at whistle blowing, discussing instances throughout history in which whistle blowers exposed corruption in politics, the law, education, and other areas.

Examines the study of values, or axiology, and what makes certain actions right or wrong.

Eighty-seven-year-old Dr. Sarah Halifax, the woman who decoded the first radio transmission from aliens nearly four decades earlier in 2009, is offered a chance to rollback time through an experimental rejuvenation procedure that would allow her to work on the just-received alien reply, but life gets complicated when she and her husband Don agree to the treatment, which works for him but not for her, leaving her with a twenty-five-year-old spouse.

A class of junior high students is taken to a deserted island, where they are given weapons and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing, but Yukie Utsumi and five of her friends lock themselves in the lighthouse, clinging to a desperate hope of survival.

Explores the claims of individuality, in which a person creates their own life, and the claims of identity, the large and abstract social categories through which people define themselves.

A neuroscientist explores how globalization has illuminated the deep moral divisions between opposing sides, drawing on pioneering research to reveal the evolutionary sources of morality while outlining recommendations for bridging divided cultures.

Philosopher and biologist Massimo Pigliucci uses the combination of science and philosophy to answer questions about morality, love, friendship, justice, and politics.

The Christian morality course occupies a central place in a religion curriculum within a Catholic high school. The course focuses on character development. Of all of the religion courses available, it seems to students that a morality course is most about them- their struggles, issues, dilemmas, and emerging identity.