JOHN FROHNMAYER
JOHN FROHNMAYER
Questions for Discussion
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Where do ethics/morals come from?
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What do we take as authority in deciding how to act?
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Where do guilt, shame and regret come from?
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Does action require a pure motive to be moral?
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Of what value are regrets?
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What is the difference between rules and morals?
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Between law and ethics?
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What does it take for you to change your mind?
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Is it different (that is, changing your mind) on a factual issue than on an opinion, say your opinion of another person?
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Is consistency necessary (or desirable) in life and ethics?
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Can one define one’s self in one way and live life acting in another?
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How much of our lives do we create and how much just happens?
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Do we value or discount service to others?
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How do we establish societal values that are not based on either money or economic growth?
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Are we in a post-truth society?
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How do we deal with luck in the moral equation?
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What scares us and why?
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How do we best recover from mistakes?
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What is the value of honor?
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What price do most people pay for cheating?
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Where does confidence come from?
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Do morality and confidence have anything to do with each other?
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What is grace?
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Why do we take bad advice?
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Are we responsible for each other (our brother’s keeper)?
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What is friendship and how does it inform our morality?
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Is it a virtue to be persuadable?