CENTER
FOR ETHICS AND PUBLIC LIFE
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CEPL
Mission Statement | top
The King's College Center for Ethics and Public Life was established to be a visible,
dynamic expression of the commitment of King's College to offer students intellectual,
moral, and spiritual preparation for satisfying and purposeful lives. That college
wide warrant has its origins in the statement of the founding President, that
King's College teaches students “not only to how to make a living, but how to
live.” (Fr. James Connerton, C.S.C., 1946)
Acting as a catalyst for the integration of serious ethical study and reflection
within the various professional and business programs offered by the College,
the Center seeks to transform the public and personal dimensions of students'
lives through moral reflection. It seeks to empower students – as well as faculty,
administrators, and staff members – to be wise stewards of resources of the world
and to be agents of peace and justice in their generation.
Catholic higher education “has a moral purpose as well as an intellectual purpose”
(Fr. James Lackenmier, C.S.C., 1992), and the Center for Ethics and Public Life
is charged explicitly with promoting that moral purpose by:
- Fostering
regular dialogue within the College on the ethical dimensions in the academic
fields.
- Assisting
in the development of courses for students in the various professional programs.
- Sponsoring
programs for the faculty to enable them to more effectively address ethics
and moral concerns in their disciplines.
- Arranging
lectures, round-table discussions, presentations, and seminars on timely ethical
topics.
- Serving
as a resource and agent for regular College reflection on moral life: public
and private, professional and institutional.
- Collaborating
with other College groups in enhancing a climate of support in a community
committed to academic excellence, social responsibility, and mutual respect.
Upcoming
Events | top
CEPL Events for Fall, 2004
- Faculty/staff prep session
on Ethics Center speaker, Tom Morris
- Tom Morris, "True
Success: A New Philosophy of Excellence," Monday, November 22, 2004,
3:30 - 4:45 PM (Burke Auditorium)
- Tom Morris, "If
Aristotle Ran General Motors: The New Soul of Business," Monday, November
22, 2004, 7:00 - 8:15 PM (Burke Auditorium)
Past
Events | top
Spring 2004 Events
Amy Laura Hall,
“The Child as Project: Reproductive Biotechnology in the U.S.,” April 6, 2004
Amy Laura Hall, “Children
as Interruption: Child Welfare and the Recalibration of Time.,” April 6, 2004
Fall 2003 Events
Panel discussion on "Justice and Care: A Dialogue on Feminist Ethics,"
November 13, 2003 (Panel participants: Dr. Gregory Bassham, Dr. Philip Muntzel,
Fr. Jack Ryan, C.S.C., Ms. Abby Myers).
Spring 2003 Events
Lecture by Fr. Stefano Penna, "A Canadian Catholic's Response to the USA's
Request to be United in War," February 21, 2003.
Annual Ethics Center Lectures by Dr. Maura Ryan, "Justice and Mercy in
an Age of Cloning: Debating Stem Cell Research" and "Women, Children,
and War," April 1, 2003.
Fall 2002 Events
Faculty Forum on "Introduction to the Just War Tradition" (moderated
by Dr. Philip Muntzel), October 3, 2002.
Panel discussion on "The Theology of Stanley Hauerwas on Peace and War,"
October 17, 2002. (Panel participants: Fr. Tom Looney, C.S.C., Dr. Peg Hogan,
Dr. Margarita Rose, Dr. Joel Shuman, and Fr. Thomas O'Hara, C.S.C.)
Lecture by David Kline, "The Spirituality and Ethics of Place," November
4, 2002.
Spring 2002 Events
Annual Ethics Center Lecture by John P. Wilcox and Nancy L. Thomas, "Campus
Conversations on Values: Addressing an Issue and Developing a Culture,"
March 14, 2002.
Ethics
Minor | top
The Minor in Ethics and Values is intended to provide students with increased
opportunities to address ethical issues in public and professional life. All
students are welcome to the program, but those who intend careers in business,
government, journalism, law, and medicine should be especially interested. Courses
in the program are designed to give students a solid background in the moral
literature of philosophy and theology as well as opportunities to address contemporary
moral issues, especially as they occur in the context of professional life.
MINOR REQUIREMENTS
(7 courses - 21 credits)
CORE 260 Basic Christian Ethics (3)
CORE 286 Introduction to Philosophical Ethics (3)
PHIL/ 470 Ethics and Values Seminar (3) or
THEO 470 Ethics and Values Seminar (3)
Four of the following:
CORE 261 Faith, Morality, and the Person (3)
CORE 263 Christian Marriage (3)
CORE 284 Philosophy of Human Nature (3)
CORE 285 Philosophy of Death and the Meaning of Life (3)
CORE 287 Ethics, Business, and Society (3)
CORE 288 Bioethics (3) or
THEO 345 Bioethics (3)
THEO 331 Christian Social Ethics (3)
THEO 337 Issues of Christian Ethics (3)
Links | top
- Bioethics
Program, Iowa State University
- Cary
M. Maguire Center for Ethics and Public Responsibility, Southern Methodist
University
- Center
for Applied and Professional Ethics, California State University-Chico
- Center
for Applied Christian Ethics, Wheaton College
- Center
for Biomedical Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
- Center
for Business Ethics, Bentley College
- Center
for Ethics, Emory University
- Center
for Ethics in Health Care, Oregon Health Sciences University
- Center
for Professional and Applied Ethics, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
- Center
for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology,
including the Codes of Ethics Online Project)
- Centre
for Applied Ethics, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Centre
for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia
- Clarke,
David, Technical and Resource Management, Southern Illinois University
- Codes
of Ethics Online Project of the Center for the Study of Ethics in the
Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology
- Duquesne
University Health Care Ethics Center
- Elliott,
Deni, Practical Ethics Center, University of Montana
- Ethics
on the World Wide Web - Maintained by Association member Paul Martin Lester
- Ethics
Resource Center
- Forum
for Bioethics and Philosophy, University of Miami - Kenneth Goodman
- German
Reference Centre for Ethics in the Life Sciences, Birte Herrfurth &
Karen Meusemann
- Gonzaga
Institute of Ethcs, Gonzaga University - J. Michael Stebbins
- Hoffberger
Center for Professional Ethics, University of Baltimore
- Institute
for Applied and Professional Ethics, Ohio University
- Institute
for Ethics and Policy Studies, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
- Institute
for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland - William A.
Galston
- Institute
for the Study of Applied and Professional Ethics, Dartmouth College
- Kenan
Institute for Ethics, Duke University
- Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics
- Mazur,
Tim C., Council for Ethics in Economics
- Notre
Dame Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business, University of
Notre Dame
- Olsson
Center for Applied Ethics, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration,
University of Virginia
- Online
Ethics Center, Case Western Reserve University - Caroline Whitbeck
- Poynter
Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions, Indiana University
- Center
for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University
- Program
in Ethics in Society, Stanford University
- Zicklin
Center for Business Ethics Research, The Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania
Director
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Prof. Gregory Bassham
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Hafey-Marian Room 508
Phone: (570) 208-5900, ext. 5784
Fax: (570) 208-5988
E-mail: ghbassha@kings.edu
Web page: http://www.kings.edu/ghbassha/index.htm
Advisory Board:
Fr. Tom Looney, C.S.C. (Chair); Prof. Jayne Klenner-Moore; Prof. David Baggett;
Prof. Hamid Hosseini; Prof. Jeremy Simington; Prof. Ed Ockerman; ; Prof. Marc
Marchese; Prof. Tara Shawver