The Basement
The Content of Your Character
Tough Choices
Absolutely Relative
Miscellaneous
100
What does "the basement" refer to?
Your Unconscious Mind
100
Who delivered the speech that gave us the phrase, "the content of (our) character?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.
100
We know we are in a Right versus Right situation when two ______ are in conflict with each other.
Ethical Values
100
What position is most compatible with monotheistic faiths?
Ethical Absolutism
100
What are Columbus Academy's Five Core Ethical Values?
Respect Responsibility Honesty Compassion Fairness
200
What have we referred to as "extending yourself emotionally into a situation in order to understand it better."
Empathy
200
What are the two types of values that make up the content of our character?
Performance Values and Ethical/Moral Values
200
What is the other name we have used to refer to a Right versus Wrong decision?
Moral Temptation
200
What position says that each individual is his or her own moral authority?
Ethical Subjectivism
200
If you have done a lot of exploration of ethical questions but not yet committed, you are in what state of identity formation?
Moratorium
300
What is the "intellectual activity" we engage in in order to understand a situation better?
Perspective Taking
300
What concept have we been discussing when we talked about "closing the gap?"
Integrity
300
What is it that allows people to do the right thing, even when it is difficult and very tempting to do the wrong?
Moral Courage
300
Which two positions that we discussed are both relativistic?
Ethical Subjectivism and Cultural Relativism
300
In order to convince a person that your position on an ethical question is "better" than his or her position, you need the support of what?
Good Reasons or Ethical Absolutes
400
What is the sensation we experience when our behavior does not match our own expectations of ourselves? It might be translated as "thought noise."
Cognitive Dissonance
400
We might think of a person without _____ values as "The ______ _______," and a person without ______ as "The _______ _______."
Performance Values/Bumbling Saint Ethical Values/Ruthless CEO
400
What are the four tests for Right versus Wrong?
The Hero Test The Front Page Test The Gut Test The Legal Test
400
Can you be "wrong" if you are a Cultural Relativist?
Yes
400
The shopping cart with unbalanced wheels was a metaphor we used when discussing ____.
Bias
500
What does the "Implicit Association Test" look for?
Bias
500
In what year did Dr. King deliver his "I Have a Dream" speech?
1963. (Remember, when we discussed it, we had just recognized the 50-year anniversary of the event.)
500
What is the best strategy to resist doing things that you know you shouldn't do but are extremely tempting?
Avoid those situations!
500
It appears that to make sense of our experience as moral beings, we must accept some of the truths of relativism and some of the truths of relativism. What have we called this?
The Paradox of Moral Maturity
500
What are the three categories of "Good Reasons" that we discussed?
Consequences Principles Universal Values