Introduction to Philosophy Mr. Pendergast

Ethical Decision Making Scenarios – “Nicomachean Ethics”

For each “Setting” below – hopefully ones you can identify with - you need to describe a “Scenario” that will require you to make an

ethical decision and write in the left hand box. Then, using Aristotle’s principle of the “Golden Mean,” determine what response

would be “deficient,” which would be to “excess,” and which would be the “mean,” (the proper moral choice).

Setting/Scenario (you create)	Deficiency	Mean	Excess
1. College application process – Scenario?
2. Preparing for & taking SAT & SAT II - Scenario?
3. On the Field, Court or Ice - Scenario?
4. Helping a friend with his/her homework - Scenario?
5. Commitment to outside sports team v. school team - Scenario?
6. Speaking of sports, imagine a moment in a game/match/race where you might be challenged to make a moral choice - Scenario?
Setting/Scenario (you create)	Deficiency	Mean	Excess
7. Shopping - Scenario?
8. Saturday Night (or Friday, or Sunday if it’s a 3 day weekend) - Scenario?
10. Sharing iTunes or iVideo – Scenario?
11. You are witness to a crime -Scenario?
12. You are witness to verbal or physical mistreatment of another - Scenario?
13. You come across a valuable object lying in the middle of a parking lot - Scenario?
14. You see someone stranded, their car broken down, by the side of the road - Scenario?
15. Your turn – Come up with your own Scenario: