Seeing the Light - Introducing Ethics Through Movies

Seeing the Light: Exploring Ethics Through Movies is an engaging and innovative approach to the study of philosophy and the development of moral reasoning skills.
It offers an innovative and imaginative approach to showing relevance of movies for ethical reflection and draws on a diverse selection of popular movies, foreign films, and documentaries to illustrate ethical dilemmas and character development on the big screen that has application to our lives.
It presents coverage of major ethical theories ranging from Ethical Egoism and Cultural Relativism to Utilitarianism, Kantian Ethics, Rawls' Justice Theory, Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, and Feminist Ethics and demonstrates how film is a powerful vehicle for sharpening skills in analysis and moral reasoning.