How to take a break from ethics. Michael Brannigan, the Chair in Ethics and Moral Values at The College of Saint Rose, explains.

We all have our own personal values, the sense of what is right and what is wrong that's morality. Ethics is the systematic examination of morality. Ethics digs deeper. It looks at our morality and asks questions. What happens when my values conflict with yours? How do you resolve that conflict of values? How do you determine whose values are more important in each particular instance?

And the students can relate to that, whether we're talking about cheating on exams or cheating within relationships.

Q: Those all sound like pretty weighty topics. What do you do to relax?

A: Well, I read a lot, although my bedtime reading might consist of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time" or something like that.

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