Lucia Muro

3/19/18

Per. 03

​ ​Instilled Moral For a Better Life

I. Introduction:

A. Ethics is a person’s moral foundation and it can also be what a person values, it’s

how they choose to act upon a situation and the person behavior.

B. Justice can be a fair and equal action ,or a fair and equal behavior toward other

people.

1. Ethics and justice are related because they are both traits a human can

have. Justice can fall under a person’s morals because it can be part of their morals or values to

act just in certain situations.

C. The ethical framework that guides the ten rules is the duty framework.

II. Rule-By-Rule Justifications 1​

A. In the ten rules to live by some of the rules fell under the same category. This category

grouped rules that portrayed putting other people first.

B. One group of rules were to help someone in need and to think about other people’s

needs.
 C. These rules were grouped together because they both show integrity and require purring

other people first or prioritizing other people’s needs. For example, these rules show

unity and fairness.

1.In one of the paideia discussions, “The Runaway Trolley”, one of the scenarios

was being able to “turn the trolley car onto the side track, killing the one worker, but sparing the

five”(Sandel 6). This shows how someone who didn’t have to do help or wasn’t obligated

helped, could help other people in need because they have integrity.

D. These rules connect to the duty framework because it shows the moral philosophy about

right or wrong, and focuses on how you will help someone and considers a person’s ethical

obligation in things shouldn’t do and doing the right action.

A. The second group of the ten rules to live by that connect to the duty framework and

putting people first, require not causing harm to people.

B. The rules that connect to that connect to this ethical decision are: do no harm, do not be

envious, and do not wish bad upon anyone.

C. These rules were grouped together because they all show that a person should have

respect and be just towards people and that people shouldn’t be prejudice, especially in

situations where ethical decisions are going to be taken.

D. These rules connect to the duty framework because these are rules are like steps that lead

into how yous should treat people during situations. Unlike, the consequentialist

framework where it focuses on the end result, the duty framework focuses on the

progress of how something is done considering how people are being treated.
A. For the third group of rules paired, they all focus on the way people are being treated like

the first set of rules which was to have integrity.

B. The rules that were paired were to make sure everyone is treated with the same respect,

give the benefit of the doubt equally to people, and to make sure people are treated with

equity in situations.

C. These rules connect because they all require how you treat people these rules show that

should have integrity, respect and be just toward each other and to not change the way

you help people by discriminating them.

D. All these rules connect to the duty framework because their purpose is the process of how

people are being treated in a situation. An example could be, how a teacher decides help a

classroom with different races or backgrounds, the duty framework would focus on trying

to help all of the students in the class and not focusing on the outcome which could

require to sacrifice some students.

A. Lastly, the final pair of rules focal point is a person’s behavior these rules also tie into

having integrity and having respect.

B. The last two rules are trying your best and being patient.

C. These rules were put together because they are based on a person’s behavior in an ethical

dilemma.

1. In the Brown University reading it states how the framework, “focuses on

following moral rules or duty regardless of outcome”. This shows how the
 someone acts or takes action is more important than the outcome of an

ethical dilemma.

D. These rules connect to the duty framework because they all show how getting

something is more important than the actual end result.

III. Creation & Revision Process

A. When creating the ten rules to live by list I wrote down some ethical morals and

behaviors I thought were important. After writing down the ten rules, some rules were

eliminated because they did not seem logically consistent with each other and some

contradicted each other.

B. When making revisions some rules were erased so that better rules can be written. Some

rules were changed because they didn’t seem that they were our obligation to each other.

IV. Conclusion

A. If I lived by these rules my life would be different because I would treat people

differently by that I mean I would think twice about people or more often of them. For

example, for the trolley dilemma something I would do differently from now was to take

into consideration the people that are going to be killed instead of just letting the situation

happen.

B. If everyone lived by these rules the world would be better because it should be in a

person’s morals to genuinely help their neighbor or a person on need and to be more

selfless.