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Engage Assess yourself on which do you usually rely on when making decisions: your heart (feelings) or your mind (reason)? Could one be more reliable than the other when making moral decisions? Elaborate your answers by sharing your own experience. My answer depends on what decision I am choosing from. For easy and apparent decisions, I observe that I always follow my heart since it helps my decisions come with conviction; however, I might be influenced by social standards if I follow my mind. This is also true when it comes to making decisions about topics that are in line with my passions, values, and priorities. With regard to reliability, none of them could topple over the other since both of them work differently most of the time. There are instances that the mind is sound over the heart, and the same is true otherwise.

Elaborate How were the Impediments to Ethical Decision-making portrayed in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave? What specific character or objects in the allegory correspond to the specific impediment to ethical decision-making? It was through ethical philosophical discourse that the impediments to Ethical decision- making have been carried out and have been explained comprehensively. This philosophical thinking, brought forth by Plato, contends that the use of senses is no less than what it means to express an opinion. Moreover, he stressed that true cognition can only be achieved through a sound discourse that involves ethical underpinnings. Subsequently, the specific characters attached to it include the sun, the prisoner, and the cave itself.

Evaluate Column A Column B 1. Identify the principles that have a a. This involves eliminating bearing on the case alternatives according to the moral principles that have a bearing on the 2. Gather the facts case. 3. List of alternatives 4. Determine the ethical issues b. This part of the model is done after 5. Make a decision deliberation. 6. Assess/Weigh the consequences 7. Compare the alternatives with c. Moral issues should be carefully stated in terms of competing interests principles d. This involves coming up with various alternatives as part of creative thinking that is important before deciding e. This is considered as the first important step prior to any ethical analysis or reflection f. This step has both positive and negative consequences that requires careful examination and must be considered g. The step when one decides whether some principles are to be weighed more heavily than others