PPT-How do humanists deal with moral dilemmas?

Five people have fallen onto a train track and a train is hurtling towards them It is too late for the train to stop You are the signal man and by flicking a switch you can divert the train onto a different track saving the people who have fallen On the other track is a workman who will be hit by the train if you divert it. You will be able to:. All: Describe how a moral issue is dealt with in a soap opera (L4). Most: Explain how some moral issues have been dealt with in soaps and give your view on their effectiveness (L5). Individuals of the Renaissance thought of their time as one in which mankind changed fundamentally—men thought the lives they lived and the ideas they held made their age strikingly different from the one(s) before.. Literary Humanists. Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) . Father of Humanism. Italian poet, author. Loved Classical world, despised “Dark Ages” & papal corruption. His solution:. Reconstruct G-R world. Chathurika Samarasinghe. Dilki . Shehani. Dilemma. A situation in which an individual feels compelled to make a choice between two or more actions that he or she can reasonably and morally justify...!. Admiring symbolic buildings and natural beauty. How could you represent these words in a building?. One life. Happiness. Friendship. Community. Humanity. Progress. Empathy. Science. The arts. Creativity. Age 11-14. Humanists have no doctrine or creed they must sign up to. Many will disagree on the specifics of the best way to live. But most will agree with the following key beliefs:. Believe the world is a natural phenomenon with no supernatural side, and . What do you celebrate?. Human beings are . special. and human life is valuable. Humanists . don’t believe in a god. ,. . or believe we can never know if there is a god. Humanists believe . we only have one life . Humanists base their moral decisions on . empathy. , . reason. , . evidence. , and . respect for the dignity of each person. .. Humanists will consider the evidence and the potential . consequences. of their actions, trying to find the course of action that leads to the least harm.. of . Emotional. Engagement in . Moral. . Judgement. Joshua. D. . Greene. , R. Brian . Sommerville. , . Leigh. E. . Nystrom. , John M. . Darley. , Jonathan D. Cohen. Ching-Ju (C.J) Tseng & Noralie Krepel. Admiring symbolic buildings and natural beauty. How could you represent these words in a building?. One life. Happiness. Friendship. Community. Humanity. Progress. Empathy. Science. The arts. Creativity. dickinsondl@appstate.edu Appalachian State University, IZA, ESI. David Masclet: Universit This work brings together a wide range of perspectives on ethics and morality from formal research studies of practitioners\' dilemmas to theoretical and philosophical explanations of the ethics of psychotherapy. Numerous practical and thought-provoking insights from 25 years of professional experience in these fields aim to make this a useful text for any student, client, trainer, supervisor or practitioner. There are also useful examples of thinking structures for the analysis, learning and understanding of ethics as well as a selection of ethical dilemmas for practice and training, supervision, research and other professional purposes. Based on current research in psychotherapy outcome, this volume also places under the spotlight issues such as the relative importance of theoretical approaches to psychotherapy, and the relevance of values and ideology and the interests of professionalisation as well as the interests of patients. A provocative and fascinating look at new discoveries about the brain that challenge our ethicsThe rapid advance of scientific knowledge has raised ethical dilemmas that humankind has never before had to address. Questions about the moment when life technically begins and ends or about the morality of genetically designing babies are now relevant and timely. Our ever-increasing knowledge of the workings of the human brain can guide us in the formation of new moral principles in the twenty-first century. In The Ethical Brain, preeminent neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga presents the emerging social and ethical issues arising out of modern-day brain science and challenges the way we look at them. Courageous and thought-provoking -- a work of enormous intelligence, insight, and importance -- this book explores the hitherto uncharted landscape where science and society intersect.