Tag Archives: Kitty Genovese

What kind of motivation do we have to act morally? For example, are we motivated to appear “good” to obtain a favorable reputation?

First Disc In reading Plato’s The Ring of Gyges, we are presented with the fundamental ethical question: are we only moral when others are watching? In 38 Who Saw Murder and Didn’t Call The Police, we read about a murder that happened in Brooklyn, New York in 1965 that led to the term “the bystander […]