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Center For Professional Ethics, Fall 2006, Case Western Reserve University

Center for Professional Ethics

Table of Contents:

• Director's Corner: A New Beginning by Robert P. Lawry
• The Global is Finally Local: Some Notes on Ethics, A Conversation with Bill Deal, Inamori Professor
• Are You Ready to Take Free Exercise Rights Seriously? Alan Brownstein Explains Why You Should
• Religious Lawyering: Professor Russell Pearce Keeps His Faith
• Author David Callahan Asks: What Does Our "Cheating Culture' Say About Us?
• Academic Integrity: Students Speak

A Review By Chatham Carpenter Of Moral Courage, By Rushworth Kidder, April Chatham Carpenter

UNIversitas: Journal of Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity

“Should I select a pragmatic, application-based text, to supplement the more traditional theoretical text, for the university capstone class I’m teaching for the first time this Fall? I want something that would be practical and make the students think about their own behavioral choices in situations involving ethics. But I also want something that will challenge them to think critically about a variety of ethical situations.” This was one of the dilemmas I faced when I was investigating what text to use as a supplementary text my first time through teaching the Ethics in Communication course as a university capstone …

Ross On Desert And Punishment, Jeffrey Moriarty

Philosophy Faculty Publications

W. D. Ross thinks it is good, other things equal, that people get what they deserve. But he denies that “the principle of punishing the vicious, for the sake of doing so, is that on which the state should proceed in its bestowal of punishments.” Ross offers two main arguments for this denial: what I call the “scope argument” and the “state's purpose argument.” I argue that both fail. In doing so, I illuminate Ross's distinctive views about desert and the state.

Ahistoricism And Oppresssion, Kenton Machina

Faculty Publications - Philosophy

Many theories of moral accountability, whether libertarian or compatibilist, may be characterized as time-slice theories in that they do not allow the agent’s personal history to be relevant to moral accountability, instead making accountability rest solely on the state of things during one slice out of the agent’s life story. The point of this paper is to draw attention to the personal background irrelevance embedded in such theories, and to argue that any theory of accountability embracing such irrelevance supports injustice. My argument rests on an analysis of some generally accepted epistemic conditions on accountability, claiming that whether these conditions …

Little Gods And Little Heroes: Hyperreal Ethics In God Games And Online Gaming, G. Christopher Williams

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

Media critics, notably Jean Baudrillard, have suggested that the environment of simulations are to be defined as something more real than the real, or, in his terms, hyperreal. If hyperrealities are indeed the way that we can define the environment of multimedia technologies like video games, what sorts of ethical considerations should exist in a place that gamers conceive as more real than the real? This essay considers what ethical considerations are worth contemplating as gamers begin to take on the roles of gods and heroes in multiplayer video games. The little gods and heroes whose identities gamers have begun …

Toward Eco-Friendly Aeshetics, Sheila Lintott

Faculty Journal Articles

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Character Education, Kim Slater

Graduate Research Papers

Character education has been a topic that has been heavily talked about in many schools across the United States. This article presents the purpose and goals of character education in our school systems. Many issues and concerns are brought to educators' attentions when discussing the role character education plays. Issues and concerns such as teacher time and responsibility, proper way to teach Character Education, parents as partners, and religion and cultural differences are discussed in this article as well as the importance Character Education has on the lives of all students.