Empathy & Ethics

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 5

You will be…

1) able to distinguish between empathy and sympathy

 2) learning to recognize and to show empathy

3) learning to improve your ability to empathise

Empathy

Empathy 

The experience of understanding and sharing another person’s feelings from their perspective.

You place yourself ‘in their shoes’ and imagine what they are feeling.

Sympathy is feelings pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune.

Empathy vs sympathy

Consider the definition of empathy.

How does empathy differ from sympathy?

Fill in the form your teacher gives you to find out if you are empathetic.

Five steps you could use to develop your ability to empathise;

Whatch & Listen

Remember

Imagine

Ask

Show you care

WHAT DO YOU DO? 

Steps you could use to develop your ability to empathise;

1) For picture 2.19, write down answers to the first three steps of figure 2.18

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2) Do some research to find another image from any global topic where empathy might be needed.

3) For your own image, write down answers to the first three steps of figure 2.18

VIDEO

Listen to what the interviewer says. Write down examples of empathy that the interviewer demonstrates.

Answer the following questions;

1) Overall, how empathetic do you think the interviewer is to the situation of the person being interviewed?

2) How do you think that the interviewer could be more empathetic?

What does 'ethics' mean?

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What would you do with Lee?

Which choice would you make?

WHAT WOULD YOU DO

YOUR SHIP IS GOING DOWN 

WHAT WOULD YOU DO

LOST ......

You are the captain of a ship. A fire on board has destroyed the radio. From the rate the water is rising inside the ship you estimate that it will sink in between two hours and two and a half hours. You did not tell the authorities of your destination.

It will take about 45 minutes to launch the only boat and it will take 15 minutes for each person to be lowered into the boat and they can only go one at a time. They can't jump as the water is shark infested. The nearest land is an uninhabited tropical island 30 km distant.

Your task is to decide which people will enter the boat. Everyone has agreed to abide by your decision. Items held by individuals must stay with the owner; they cannot be transferred to other people.

TO DO 

There is a simple calculation you can make to decide how many people could 

enter the lifeboat. It will take 45 minutes to launch the boat leaving a further 75 to 105 minutes before the ship sinks. Each person takes 15 minutes to lower into the boat therefore between five and seven people could be saved, so you will need to choose 5 people who will certainly be saved and a further two who might be saved.

YOU HAVE 30 MINUTES TO COME UP WITH YOUR SOLUTION

At the end of the exercise ask the participants present their chosen survivors and reasoning

Ship is going down 

This lesson we will discuss your outcome

WE WOULD .......

Would YOU throw someone out of a lifeboat to save yourself? A terrifying shipwreck, a freezing ocean and a savage battle for survival. The ultimate moral dilemma: 

With a cargo of immigrants bound for a new life in America, the William Brown was a ship full of hope. It had set off from Liverpool five weeks earlier, on March 13, 1841, and was nearing the end of its voyage to Philadelphia.

A ship of 559 tonnes, it carried salt, coal and china, along with 65 passengers, mostly Irish and  Scottish families, as well as husbands and  wives joining spouses who had already made the journey from the old world to the land of opportunity.

There was thick fog as the ship entered the icefield west of Nova Scotia on the night of April 19. But rather than slowing down as other ships nearby were prudently doing, the better to avoid icebergs that might suddenly loom out of the darkness, the American captain, 48-year-old George Harris, kept the William Brown sailing at a brisk ten knots. 

Harris was an experienced sailor, but he was under pressure from the ship’s owners to complete the voyage quickly because the vessel was about to be sold.

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Based on the video's, I'm more a(n) ....
Because ....

DO YOU AGREE

“It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are”

                                                                   - Roy Disney

THINK: 

Many times, we as individuals, will label, judge or stereotype people around us based on first impressions or limited information. It is important for each of us to broaden our perspective of the people around us and to stop stereotyping people we could build relationships with. 

The purpose of the Lifeboat Activity was to show that the survivors chosen, were chosen because of their labels. Likewise, many of the people not chosen to survive, were not chosen because of their labels.

TO FINISH: 

1. What personal morals and values came into play with your decisions? Did anything particular stand out to you?

 

2. Can people change their morals and values? If so what does it take?

TO DO 

TODAY WE WILL DISCUSS THE TERM 

"EVIL"

REMEMBER THE LESSONS OF ETHICS TOO

THINK: What is evil? 

Ethics and WW2 ... 

Evil is ....

When I think of an evil person, I think of .....

Evil: watch the video and answer ...

1) Evil is ...

2)Give an example of an evil person ...

3)Explain why this person is seen as evil ...

4) Do you agree with this statement, and why ...

Evil: watch the video and answer ...

1) Evil is ...

2)Give an example of an evil person ...

3)Explain why this person is seen as evil ...

4) Do you agree with this statement, and why ...

Evil: watch the video and answer ...

1) Evil is ...

2)Give an example of an evil person ...

3)Explain why this person is seen as evil ...

4) Do you agree with this statement, and why ...

How does someone become evil?