Making the Right Choice
Opening Questions:
1.) How does personal morality affect a person's ability to lead others?
A person's morality is his basis on how he is leading other people. The decisions he is going to choose will reflect his values and morals.
2.) Discernment plays an important role in a leader's life. Identify several ways that it might be used to lead a nation.
I think that there are pros and cons in every decision a leader makes. He cannot please everybody. He has to make a decision that will either make some people happy others mad. Or he has to make a decision that is right but a lot of people are against it. I wonder if presidents look at their apporval ratings everytime they want to make a decision? Or do they just make decisions because they know that this is the right thing to do.
3.) Name the most "discerning" leaders that you have known, or known of, in your lifetime and describe how they exemplified discernment.
Not sure? I think everybody makes a bad decision in their life but to say a that person is discerning does that mean that they don't make mistakes? Anyways I don't know. Do you have anybody in mind?
Main Entry: mo·ral·i·ty
Pronunciation: m&-'ra-l&-tE, mo-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ties
1 a : a moral discourse, statement, or lesson b : a literary or other imaginative work teaching a moral lesson
2 a : a doctrine or system of moral conduct b plural : particular moral principles or rules of conduct
3 : conformity to ideals of right human conduct
4 : moral conduct : VIRTUE
Main Entry: 1mor·al
Pronunciation: 'mor-&l, 'mär-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin moralis, from mor-, mos custom
1 a : of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior : ETHICAL <moral judgments> b : expressing or teaching a conception of right behavior moral poem> c : conforming to a standard of right behavior d : sanctioned by or operative on one's conscience or ethical judgment moral obligation> e : capable of right and wrong action moral agent>
2 : probable though not proved : VIRTUAL moral certainty>
3 : perceptual or psychological rather than tangible or practical in nature or effect moralmoral support> victory> <>dis·cern·ment
Pronunciation: di-'s&amp;rn-m&nt, -'z&rn-
Function: noun
1 : the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure : skill in discerning
2 : an act of discerning
Main Entry: dis·cern
Pronunciation: di-'s&rn, -'z&rn
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French discerner, from Latin discernere to separate, distinguish between, from dis- apart + cernere to sift -- more at DIS-, CERTAIN
transitive verb
1 a : to detect with the eyes <discerned a figure approaching through the fog> b : to detect with senses other than vision <discerned a strange odor>
2 : to recognize or identify as separate and distinct : DISCRIMINATE <discern right from wrong>
3 : to come to know or recognize mentally
intransitive verb : to see or understand the difference
