Module 8 Willpower and emotion

Is self-restraint or emotional self-fulfillment the basis for ethical reasoning? What is the importance of learning self-regulation in the management of fear? The module videos can also be found in a single list in the VIDEOS tab.

Primary video (view this first)

Module 8. Willpower and emotion

Supportive resources (view and read)

Sheena Iyengar: The art of choosing (24 minute video)

Free Will (webpage at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Babe Shiv: Sometimess it’s good to give up the driver’s seat (10 minute video)

Don’t eat the marshmallow (video on willpower in children)

Raising Courageous Kids (textbook)

Step One: Willpower pp. 21-43

Workbook entries (after viewing the video and the supportive resources)

12. 12.Does free will exist?
    

Many children and adults use the phrase “He made me do it!” Can this be true?

13. 13.Willpower and ethics
    

What is the source of willpower and what is its relationship to ethical development?

Now participate in online discussion

When you have completed the above, visit the online discussion forum at the KSOL course website. Participate in the discussion regarding Module 8. Be prepared to use your workbook entries as part of your discussion.