Ahmad HUMN 330 Week 1 Short Paper - Human Nature and Ethics
The Milgram experiment started in July 1961 by Stanley Milgram , a psychologist
at Yale University.The experiment was conducted to explain why the German people could stand idly by as their government conducted genocide on the Jews and to study the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience .The experiment was done by having participants paired up, with one person being the learner and the other the teacher.The participant will always be the teacher and his job was to ask questions to the learner and if the learner got it wrong the participant was to shock him with increasing voltage after each wrong answer. The experiment tells us that ordinary people are very likely to follow orders that comes from an authority figure it also shows one is more likely to follow an order if responsibility of said action is pass to another. I believe this experiment is relevant to an ethic course as is teaches us that given the right condition ordinary people can be made to do something that ,they as person find morally or ethically wrong. Resources Milgram Obedience Study. (n.d.). Retrieved January 18, 2016, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTX42lVDwA4