Order Description1. Chapter 1
Imagine that you are returning merchandise to a large department store. The value of the merchandise is $500. As you are returning the goods, you notice that the clerk has made an error. Instead of
crediting your account the proper $500 amount, she credits your account with $1,000.
Identify the five moral operations in this example:
What is it?
Is it so?
What am I going to do?
Is that action the right thing to do?
Are you going to do it?

2. Chapter 2
Describe the characteristics of drunk driving by answering the following questions:
What are the contexts? What might be some of the intentions of a drunk driver?
What are the larger social structures that are affected by drunk driving?
Explain the moral characteristics of drunk driving in terms of the three
meanings of the term good (personal desire, social order, and value).
In what way is the prohibition against drunken driving morally objective
knowledge?

3. Chapter 3
Describe a situation, either from your own experience or from that of someone you know, where a moral act led to freedom. Explain why you think the moral act led to freedom.

4. Chapter 4
In what sense is there a distinctive Christian Ethics, or a particular Christian understanding of responsibility? Try to be specific. How has this distinctiveness played itself out in a story from
your own life, or in the life of someone you know about?

5. Chapter 5
Identify an event or cluster of events in which you can see the three historical forces (progress, decline and redemption) actually at work in the event. Given that faith is a key dimension to
moral experience, can you discern the redeeming quality of the event and the persons in it?