Conscience, Technology, and the Common Good

A FaithBytes Seminar Workbook on Moral Conscience & Discernment

This workbook is designed for seminar-style engagement. It assumes that you are prepared to read primary sources, reason carefully, disagree charitably, and examine your own practice. The subject is moral conscience and discernment as they bear on technology, artificial intelligence, and the institutions and systems in which you will study, work, and lead.

Strand: Moral Conscience & Discernment; Integrity Online
Grade band: Higher Ed; Undergraduate and graduate students, seminarians, and adult learners (ages 18+)

Five lessons · substrand alignment

A

Integrity Within the System

Choices and Consequences
B

A Code of Digital Conduct

Kindness & Truth in Tech Use
C

Theological Discernment of Technology

Examination of Conscience
D

Catholic Moral Reasoning and Emerging Technologies

Virtue & Moral Reasoning
E

Leading with Agency

Human Intellect & Moral Agency

Big questions

What does it mean to choose the good within institutions and systems that shape technology's use?
How can Catholic moral reasoning, grounded in natural law and virtue, evaluate emerging technologies and guide their design?
How do I lead with moral and intellectual agency in a world where machines increasingly offer to think and decide?

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