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Promoting ethical inquiry, reflection, and engagement from the personal to the global

The need for critical and constructive reflection about right and wrong, justice and injustice, good and evil is as old as human existence and as new and urgent as today’s decisions and tomorrow’s possibilities. The complexity and interdependence of twenty-first century life, including its life-changing and life-threatening potential, require renewed and intensified ethical intelligence if the global challenges we all face are to be addressed responsibly and effectively.

Lehigh’s interdisciplinary Center for Ethics aims to take a leading role in critical inquiry into and responsible engagement with the ethical dimension of life.

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The Center for Ethics is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all students, staff, and faculty. We endorse Lehigh’s “Principles of Our Equitable Community”, as well as the Men Advocates and Allies statement against sexual harassment and misconduct at Lehigh.

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Why

a Center for Ethics at Lehigh?
We are daily reminded of ethical lapses of leaders in government, business, academia, and other professions, and of moral challenges confronting individuals, groups, institutions, nations, and the global communities. Conversation about moral complexity in local, national, and international affairs is desperately inadequate due in large part to modern communication systems and the politicization of media outlets.
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What

is ethics?
Ethics is concerned with issues of action, character, and governing values, with questions about right and wrong, good and evil, worthiness and unworthiness, justice and injustice, with matters of individual and collective responsibility, respect and discrimination, war and peace, and the norms and habits that make us and the world better or worse.
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Podcasts & Videos

Robin Dillon Discusses New Ethics Center