Is Ethics Based on Character?: Character-based Ethics
Until recent decades modern ethics was dominated by two approaches that focus on action. The movement that focuses on character rather than action has come to be known as virtue ethics. Looking at ethics in terms of who you are and how your life is ...
Is Ethics Based on Character?: Importance of Character and Narrative in Virtue Ethics
Kantian and Utilitarian theories tend to isolate moral decisions in the present moment and separate them from personal histories. In contrast, virtue ethics emphasizes the long-term nature of basic ethical choices and the advantage of using a life-s...
Novelty Seekers: Negative Consequences
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the potential for negative consequences among those who are genetically inclined to seek thrills. Some of these consequences can include tak...
Nature vs. Nurture (Part One)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, takes a fresh look at the nature vs. nurture controversy. Dr. Hamer contends that personality consists of two different components: temperament and char...
Credit Policy
This clip looks at the importance of formulating a credit policy. Factors that play into such a policy include: what the competition is doing; whether to finance credit or only accept major credit cards; how to run credit checks if financing credit;...
Leader for a Nation: Essence of Leadership, The
David Gergen, Harvard professor and CNN political analyst, talks about presidential leadership. Although it is likely that Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton had higher IQs, Ronald Reagan, he says, was a more effective leader because he was better cente...
Character
Philosopher Daniel Dennett talks about character, which he describes as the collection of phenomena, behavior and activity that is unique to each of us.