Over the next century, leaders will likely have to make increasingly high-stakes ethical decisions. In democratic societies, large numbers of people may play a role in making those decisions. And yet, ethics is seldom thoroughly taught in most educational curricula. While it may be covered briefly in secondary school and is covered in detail at university for those who attend and choose to study it, many accomplished people do not have even a superficial understanding of the most important ethical theories and arguments for and against them. We think that better knowledge of ethics might enable people to behave more ethically, and better understand the limitations of commonsense morality: for instance, that it typically neglects people in the far future. We’d like to see projects that aim to increase high fidelity knowledge of ethics in high-leverage ways, such as the creation of high-quality standardized curricula or promotion of existing ethics courses to large audiences online.
Ethics Education
Values and Reflective Processes
Over the next century, leaders will likely have to make increasingly high-stakes ethical decisions. In democratic societies, large numbers of people may play a role in making those decisions. And yet, ethics is seldom thoroughly taught in most educational curricula. While it may be covered briefly in secondary school and is covered in detail at university for those who attend and choose to study it, many accomplished people do not have even a superficial understanding of the most important ethical theories and arguments for and against them. We think that better knowledge of ethics might enable people to behave more ethically, and better understand the limitations of commonsense morality: for instance, that it typically neglects people in the far future. We’d like to see projects that aim to increase high fidelity knowledge of ethics in high-leverage ways, such as the creation of high-quality standardized curricula or promotion of existing ethics courses to large audiences online.