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Teaching Ethics with Short Stories
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The Tale of the Stairs

By Hristo Smirnenski

A idealistic young man gives up parts of himself to the devil in order to help the poor.

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In Europe Tags: poverty, social class

The Lottery Ticket

By Graham Greene

An English vacationer travels to an Island State off the coast of Mexico where he wins the lottery and decides to donate the money.

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In Europe Tags: irony, war

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

By Tadeusz Borowski

A Polish prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp unloads unsuspecting Jews from train cars entering the camp before they are lead to the Gas Chambers.

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In Europe Tags: war, holocaust, cruelty, race and ethnicity

To Kill a Child

By Stig Dagerman

A speeding driver on his way to the beach with his partner runs over a child hastily crossing the road on an errand.

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In Europe Tags: empathy, child-rearing

The Black Monk

By Anton Chekhov

A Russian intellectual struggles with mental health issues on an estate in the Russian countryside.

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In Europe Tags: Manic-Depression, meaning of life, public health, respect for autonomy

To Work or Not to Work

By Heinrich Böll

A fisherman encounters a zealous tourist who doesn’t think he’s working hard enough.

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In Europe Tags: Ambition, work, meaning of life, social class, social mobility

The Model

By Guy de Maupassant

A French painter falls in and out of love with a model.

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In Europe Tags: Love, social class, sacrifice, compassion, manipulation, happiness, feminism, relationships

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  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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