Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the role of warfare in technological advance.
- Awareness of moral and ethical considerations in technological development.
- Understand a Christian approach to questions of ethics and morality in conflict.
Category Archives: Making Moral Decisions
Black Widow: How the Christian faith responds to modern slavery and human trafficking
Learning Objectives:
- Students will examine a Christian perspective on human trafficking and exploitation.
- Understand the Bible’s teaching on the protection of vulnerable people and the role of Christians in campaigning and working with survivors of trafficking and exploitation.
Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw: Who decides what’s right and wrong?
Learning Objectives:
- Students will reflect on their values and where they come from.
- Explore Nietzsche’s ideas about morality and the Superman.
- Consider what it means for Christians to live according to the values taught by Jesus.
- Give a personal response to the moral philosophies of Nietzsche and Jesus.
Sherlock: The Final Problem: In what circumstances might it be right to do the wrong thing?
Learning Objectives:
- Consider the purpose and value of morality.
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
X-Men: Days of Future Past: What makes a particular decision morally right or morally wrong?
Learning Objectives:
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
- Understand the Christian worldview, as it relates to making moral decisions.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier: What makes it hard to tell right from wrong?
Learning Objectives:
- Consider the purpose and value of morality.
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
Star Trek: Into Darkness: How do people decide what to do?
Learning Objectives:
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
- Understand the Christian worldview, as it relates to making moral decisions.
Lincoln: Should right and wrong ever be compromised?
Learning Objectives:
- Consider the purpose and value of morality.
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
Man of Steel: To what extent is a sense of morality beneficial?
Learning Objectives:
- Consider the purpose and value of morality.
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
12 Years a Slave: What makes something morally right or wrong?
Learning Objectives:
- Consider the purpose and value of morality.
- Understand different concepts of right and wrong.
Ethos Education 