Hey Class,
For those who figure out how to comment on a post I would love to find out who you are. Give me a small blurb about yourself, share anything you like. Personally, I like the funny stuff like "I am Dr. Layne and I enjoy eating until I almost puke."
After the fun and games are over, I would also like you to tell me a little bit about what you think this class will be about. That is, what do you think a worldview is? what do you think ethics is? how do you think they are related?
Here's hoping you figure it out and get blogging.
Cheers,
Dr. Layne
(to comment see below in the syllabus or just try to post without an account and this will send you straight to the sign up for a google account. Then just sign up for a google account with your loyno.edu account and afterwords make yourself a member of the Worldviews and Ethics group)
Hi, I'm not quite sure where I should be posting my personal introduction and ideas about what worldviews and ethics are, so I'm just going to post it here!
ReplyDeleteMy name is Hilary Jones, and I am a senior music major. My instrument is the flute, and it is my passion in life! On another note, I have just recently taken up kickboxing.
In my unseasoned (haven't had the class yet!) opinion, worldviews may be largely shaped by ethics. Perhaps ethics and morality (fueled by a philosophical or religious perspective) actually shape the worldviews of individuals within a cultural or social context. I feel that understanding differing worldviews (and from where they originate) is crucial to understanding relations between cultural or religious groups, nations, etc.
I am looking forward to exploring these ideas through our readings and discussions in the course!
Hi, I'm Sarah Macom. I am an English major, Sociology minor Senior. I love to read, go to the Fly, big fan of festivals and obsessed with Texas.
ReplyDeleteI am very interested in this class because I believe worldviews to be individual beliefs that create how we identify the world, different cultures and our place in those two. Ethics to me are guidelines on how to build worldviews and act in the world together since our worldviews are unique and different.
Just my thoughts.
Hi, My name is Michael Guiden. I am a Political Science major Senior. I intern for Cedric Richmond, A democrat running for Congress in the Second Congressional District. I like to watch sports, (Football, basketball, Golf, Boxing, Soccer, Hockey) exercise and read American history books.
ReplyDeleteIn this class, I would like to better understand how ethics impact our worldviews and why they do.
My name is Mary Mikuls. I am a sophomore from Nebraska who is currently undecided when it comes to a major.
ReplyDeleteI believe a person's worldview or their understanding of the world around them impacts the person's ethics. Ethics is manifested in how this person treats the world around them. This is important because understanding a single person or group's worldviews and why they hold these views can be crucial in understanding their actions.
Hello everyone! I am Lauryn Cagle. I am a junior Psychology major with a women's studies minor. I am the type of person who will pick up a book and, once I am interested in it, will continue to read it until the text turns blue and I fall asleep.
ReplyDeleteMy personal, and possibly wrong, idea of what a worldview is that it is a socially constructed way the world around us is viewed and understood. By socially constructed I mean that a group of people (religion, society, etc.) give what they believe to be the reasons for the way things are and how our lives are to be understood.
Ethics, to me, is the study of morality and what morality is. So this course will possibly be studying ethics in the context of socially constructed worldviews, and how ethics are affected by these worldviews?
I look forward to meeting all of you in class!
Hello! My name is Mary Clara Hutchison, and I am a Visual Arts junior. I just got back from a summer in Colorado, and I am now obsessed with the Rocky Mountains.
ReplyDeleteMy understanding of worldviews is that each person has an individual and unique worldview that is influenced by the circumstances that surround that person's life. These circumstances may be ethnicity, socioeconomic background, or relationships with others. A person's worldview in turn influences their understanding of ethics by influencing their view of what is right and what is wrong.
See you in class!
Hello!
ReplyDeleteThis is Ashley Stevens, senior, double majoring in music and public relations. Like Hilary, classical music was first passion, but PR is pretty great, also. I was born in Texas, but moved to Slidell which is across the lake (Ponchartrain, for those who aren't from here). I'm interning at a PR firm, Bond PR & Brand Strategy and am President of Loyola's PRSSA.
I think this class will discuss the application of morals into ethical actions. Morals, unlike ethics are uncompromisable beliefs that define us as individuals. Ethics are the active application of our morals.
Hey there! My name is Tharika Fuhrer and I am an English major. My passions include PS3 fighting games and chasing pigeons.
ReplyDeleteI won't even try to persuade you that I know anything about World Views much less Ethics.I can only assume that this course will entail broad themes like Morality and Culture.That's really as far as I've gotten.
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ReplyDeleteMary Mena said...
ReplyDeleteGreetings to all in this Worldviews and Ethics course! I am looking forward to learning an abundance of beneficial information in this class.I am a Forensic Chemistry and Criminal Justice double major senior.I am also a part of a christian community on campus, and I try to be a welcoming and reliable person, love meeting new people, so you might be next (no awkwardness promise).
In my opinion ethics can be defined in several ways, but in a nutshell, I consider it to be based on a majority rule, over subjects and actions that are considered politically and/or socially appropriate/inappropriate.I believe ethics are more based on professional standards on how to operate a society most efficiently,somewhat like a system of codes.I am in agreement that morals and ethics are to some degree intertwined but are not conditioned to one another, and can and do collide.For instance, abortion=medically ethical=personally immoral, or the death penalty=legally ethical=inhumane/immoral,etc...
Worldviews, according to my interpretation,can encompass: theories (philosophical and/or theological/spiritual,etc.),guidelines,beliefs, ideas,goals,culture,identity,geographical location,values,personal characteristics (inherited,learned behavior), ans so on. Worldviews serve as a model by which we as a community abide or follow, however, some within the community may not agree with the overall perspectives, but nevertheless respect them and may at times have to tolerate them.
Both worldviews and ethics can be and have been subjectively determined and enforced, and have causal/dependent relationships to one another.
My apologies for the extended response, and please feel free to comment, object or agree, thanks!
Mary Mena
Hi, I'm Alex Davis, a Journalism major sophomore. In my spare time I enjoy hanging out with my friends, taking walks around the city, working out, and rereading a favorite book.
ReplyDeleteI wish to see how ethics differ between regions and time period and how they would tackle certain issues.
Wendy Arch
ReplyDeleteHi all! My name is Wendy and I'm a Psychology junior. I'm an avid animal lover and have recently become obsessed with traveling to foreign places.
It seems worldviews and ethics would intertwine and/or influence one another. A worldview is a comprehensive view(including personal beliefs, religion, society, laws) of the world around us. Ethics is a set of rules of how one should act; deals with morality.
Hey everybody.
ReplyDeleteI'm Chris Joseph and I'm a Political Science junior. I'm from New Orleans and went to Jesuit High School (GO JAYS!). I play basketball for the team here at Loyola but other than that I dont do too much. I love music, dancing (although I'm not too good) and meeting new people.
Umm..I think worldviews has to do with a collective belief or underdstanding about how things are in a community and why they are that way. I think ethics is associated with making right or wrong choices in certain situations. Worldviews and ethics are related because worldviews may be altered or influenced by the ethics that a person or a community has.
-chris joseph-
Hello everyone,
ReplyDeleteMy name is Brian Samuel. I am currently a senior at Loyola. This semester I am studying history, French, and philosophy; and I am sort of an amateur historian of New Orleans, where I have lived all of my life.
I really like philosophy. If anyone is interested, I've watched these videos online this summer and they have sparked my interest at different times and places to keep reading, something I enjoy a lot.
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/category/philosophy/
My favorite one, The Examined Life, has an excerpt from Slavoj Zizek, who came to Loyola last year to speak.
I learned in class today that there isn't a clear cut difference between ethics and morals. Though the two have a separate history descending from "customs," it is up to us as a group to define a working definition. I.E. ethics is multiple morals.
Greetings, all
ReplyDeleteMy name is Alaa Abuali, and I am a Criminal Justice major born and raised in New Orleans and currently residing in Terrytown for the past 12 years. I'm about 2 classes shy of being a junior. I'm a workaholic and i enjoy the little things in life.
I think this class will be about the study of how worldview and ethics intermingle and coincide with each other and how they have shaped our society from the time of the ancient Greeks to today. I believe that worldviews are popular beliefs that we as humans feel are common and connect us all together because generally speaking we may share certain viewpoints worldwide because we all have human nature. For example, even though the culture and customs in China may be different than that of Canada, being that we are all human, there is some common ground that enable us to share some sort of worldviews and how we perceive the world to work.
I think that ethics are general codes of conduct or ideas that help keep things in order and help maintain a civil society. As we learned in class, morals and ethics are two different fields, but they are indeed related. Morals may be the beliefs of what are right and wrong according to our own system inside ourselves that only we may decide upon, which may be different for others. Ethics are more of a professional set of rules that society should follow to keep order and rules that are somewhat expected among a certain society or group.
Ethics and Worldviews are most likely related because once again, many countries' ethics shape how society is run and those ethics together that are shared by different nations make up the worldviews that is shared throughout the world.
My name is Joe Ceponis, and I am a Music Industry Studies major seeking a Bachelors in Science degree. I am 19 and technically a sophomore here, though I will qualify as a junior first thing next year. I am taking this class mostly because I had such a rewarding experience learning Christian ethics from Prof. Blundell last semester, and I felt worldviews and ethics, in learning how they interact and where they come from, would be a natural extension of the lessons I learned from him. I think the class will be a fairly comprehensive (after a look at the reading material) study into where the roots of communal ethics as codes of conducts originated and how they eventually blossomed into full-blown worldviews, where, at least in today's world, we all expect each other to hold ethical opinions and to act conscientiously for the benefit of one and one another.
ReplyDeleteHello! My name is Osiris Yanez, and I am a History major. I actually registered for this class late so I'm trying to catchup on my blogs.
ReplyDeleteWorldviews and Ethics are very much related. Our worldviews are formed by our values, beliefs, culture and society. Ethics, on the other hand, questions what we believe. If we don't question what believe then how do we know its right?