Morality In Connors And Mccormick

Connors and McCormick’s work Character, Choices, and Community examine person, action, and community as the essential elements of moral experience as prescribed within the Gospel message. This paper will expound upon the central themes of Connors and McCormick’s work and apply their treaties to the Andres Plane Crash as a way to examine how person, action, and community from moral norms and moral reasoning. In concluding, I will highlight the importance of community and context to the formation of one’s ethics and morality. Connors and McCormick insist that reflection on morality should begin with one’s lived experience rather than mere theory or idealist principles. It is within one’s lived experiences that we start to become aware of a …show more content…
It is within our freedom to act, that is our power of reasoning, that informs our response to that lived our experience and influence our morality. Within our power of reasons, Connors and McCormick suggest that there is a “tug” that impacts our reasoning to produce good or a more just society. Lastly, persons are shaped as well shaping society structures by the one’s tugs and responses to those tugs. From the former concepts, how if any provide insights into the events that took place in the Andres Plane …show more content…
What ought we do? And what sort of community ought we construct?” Therefore morality deals with character, our choices, and communities. I will now apply these central questions to the survivors of the Andres Plane Crash. First, Who ought we be? Throughout the whole ideal the survivors committed to one another as a team or family. This reality formed them and influenced how they treated one another throughout the ordeal. Moreover, many decided multiple times to be survivors. These major identities deeply impacted their rates of survival as well as impacted their choices. Next I will discuss what ought we