Launch a meaningful classroom discussion in under 10 minutes.
Ready-to-run ethical dilemmas help students vote, discuss, reconsider, and write about real choices in advisory, SEL, ELA, social studies, and digital citizenship.
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Pick the classroom job. EthicaLog points you to a ready discussion with voting, facilitation prompts, and printable lesson plans.
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Choose a lane, launch a dilemma, and turn discussion into reflection.
Daily Dilemmas
Fast advisory, SEL, morning meeting, and substitute plans that invite respectful disagreement without feeling canned.
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Classroom-ready conversations about phones, privacy, screenshots, online pressure, AI help, and digital responsibility.
Explore AI & Digital LifeDebate-to-Writing
Move students from vote to turn-and-talk to claim, evidence, counterargument, and reflection.
Find writing promptsOne classroom routine
Vote, discuss, reflect, then write.
The value is not another content library. It is a repeatable discussion routine teachers can run tomorrow with almost no prep.
Start with a choice
Students vote before discussion so everyone has a stake.
Make disagreement safe
Facilitation prompts keep the talk grounded and respectful.
Show thinking shift
A second vote makes changing your mind visible.
End with writing
Exit tickets turn talk into claims, reasons, and reflection.
Philosophy is the backbone, not the barrier
Use great thinkers as optional enrichment after students have already wrestled with the real-world choice.
Aristotle
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Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath whose work profoundly influenced Western thought, covering logic, ethics, politics, biology, and metaphysics.
Confucius
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Confucius (551-479 BCE) was an ancient Chinese philosopher, teacher, and political figure whose teachings, preserved in the Analects, founded Confucianism and profoundly shaped East Asian ethics, education, and social thought.
Epictetus
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Influential Stoic philosopher of the Roman Imperial period, known for emphasizing the dichotomy of control and inner freedom as paths to eudaimonia.
Frederick Douglass
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Frederick Douglass (c. 1818-1895) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman who escaped slavery to become a leading voice for freedom and equality.
Immanuel Kant
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Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) was a German philosopher whose critical philosophy revolutionized ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics, establishing the foundations of modern moral reasoning through the categorical imperative.
John Locke
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English philosopher and political theorist, foundational to modern empiricism and liberalism, who argued for natural rights, government by consent, and religious toleration.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) was a British philosopher and political economist whose utilitarian ethics and passionate defense of individual liberty shaped modern democratic thought.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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Roman Emperor (161-180 CE) and Stoic philosopher, author of Meditations, a seminal work on Stoic ethics and personal reflection.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Mary Wollstonecraft was an 18th-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate for women's rights, best known for 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman'.
Immanuel Kant on Should Jake tell Mia about the ball he found?
Jake found a shiny, red ball on the playground. He's excited to show it to his friends. Later, he hears his friend Mia talking about losing her favori... Should Jake tell Mia about the ball he found?
How It Works
A practical flow for better classroom conversations.
Choose your time
Start with 5, 10, 15, or 30 minutes and pick a classroom goal.
Vote & discuss
Students take a position, listen to other reasons, and practice respectful disagreement.
Reflect or write
Use the lesson plan, exit ticket, or writing extension to turn discussion into evidence.
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