objectives
to know what is moral and what is immoral
to understand what makes people choose to do what they do
to think about what makes you act as you do
Moral Dilemmas
What would you do?
You witness a car crash. The wreckage is burning, but you may be able to save one of the two passengers. To your horror, you realise that one is your father and the other is a famous cancer specialist on the brink of a breakthrough. Who do you save?
Your mother comes home with an appalling hat and asks you what you think. She is clearly delighted with the purchase. Do you tell her the truth?
You are close to a breakthrough with a new medical treatment, but to complete your work you must carry out a lot of particularly slow and painful experiments on animals. What do you do?
Your ship goes down and you’re lost in the sea with two others, all of you in a life raft. You have no food. Without a supply of food, there’s no hope of rescue before you starve to death. Two would survive by eating the third: otherwise, all three will die. What do you do?
Homework activity for students : Make a dilemma for others to try and decide what to do. Your situation must include a difficult choice with good and bad points to both sides.
Ethical questions
You have to give your own views.
I just wanted to crawl under the nearest chair.
●I was watching the paralympics and a man was just about to start a cycling race. He was sitting on the racing cycle all dressed up in his lycra and wearing a pointed helmet.
●The machine let him start and he began to ride slowly away.
●But it was a false start. So he was disqualified.
●He blamed the machine and demanded another go.
●The judge refused because he blamed the cyclist.
●There was a terrible shouting match with a lot of swearing.
●Who was right?
Maybe some people said that questioning the judge's decision was the right thing to do because it was unfair.
●Other people said that the judge's decision is final.
●Both appealed to absolute values: Fairness/Sportsmanship.
●That is a moral judgement
Moral judgements
●Jim Brown was one of the school's finest football players. Everyone liked and respected him
And then.....
●He was going home one night through the wrong part of town.
●He was approached by three young men with knives.
●Bravely he fought them off but one of them fell over and hit his head on the kerb.
●The other two ran off, leaving their mate on the ground bleeding.
●Jim knew that if he called the Police and an Ambulance, that he would probably be arrested for GBH.
●He knew the area well enough to disappear.
●He looked down and saw that the mugger was bleeding profusely and badly needed help.
●So what should he do?
Morality can be based on all sorts of things.
●Knowledge.
●Study.
●Intuition.
●Conscience.
●God.
●Destiny.
●Tradition
Morality
Right or Wrong? How Do You Tell The Difference?
●We are going to talk about how you tell the difference between right and wrong.
●This subject is called Morality.
●This is because your ideas of what is right and what is wrong are called your Morals.
●Everyone has different Moral ideas.
●Our aim is to let you choose what your own Morals are
We are all into Morals
Someone tells you an interesting secret about someone else. Do you tell other people?
●Your best friend does a little innocent shop lifting. Do you join her?
●You see a large lad beating up a small one. What do you do?
●Have you yourself had any experiences like this when you wanted to know what was right and what was the wrong thing to do?
Morality offers you a choice of answers to this sort of question.
● Everybody has to face moral choice every day. We love to talk about it - even gossip perhaps?
●Morality gives you the chance to talk about how good you are!
●And how impossible everyone else is.
Three different ways to judge what is good and what is bad.
●Your Religion.
●Your Ethics
●Your Philosophy
●Each offers lots of ways to judge what is good and what is bad - and they are all very different.
Ethical/Moral Questions
●Why is is wrong to torture animals?
●Why is is right to help people who are disabled?
●Why is it right to be nice to other people?
●Why is it right to work hard and wrong to be lazy?
●How would your Dad/Mum answer these questions?
The choice is yours
●Everyone has their own consistent views on what is good and what is bad and on how we judge between the two.
●Even more important is to know where other people are.
www.Tes.co.uk :Morality, Ethics and Religious Philosophy
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/moral-dilemmas-6197310/
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=orality&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=5A3A0E60D0FB3C520DCCADF33E6A3F3F4597ECCF&selectedIndex=12
Right or Wrong? How Do You Tell The Difference?
●We are going to talk about how you tell the difference between right and wrong.
●This subject is called Morality.
●This is because your ideas of what is right and what is wrong are called your Morals.
●Everyone has different Moral ideas.
●Our aim is to let you choose what your own Morals are
We are all into Morals
Someone tells you an interesting secret about someone else. Do you tell other people?
●Your best friend does a little innocent shop lifting. Do you join her?
●You see a large lad beating up a small one. What do you do?
●Have you yourself had any experiences like this when you wanted to know what was right and what was the wrong thing to do?
Morality offers you a choice of answers to this sort of question.
● Everybody has to face moral choice every day. We love to talk about it - even gossip perhaps?
●Morality gives you the chance to talk about how good you are!
●And how impossible everyone else is.
Three different ways to judge what is good and what is bad.
●Your Religion.
●Your Ethics
●Your Philosophy
●Each offers lots of ways to judge what is good and what is bad - and they are all very different.
Ethical/Moral Questions
●Why is is wrong to torture animals?
●Why is is right to help people who are disabled?
●Why is it right to be nice to other people?
●Why is it right to work hard and wrong to be lazy?
●How would your Dad/Mum answer these questions?
The choice is yours
●Everyone has their own consistent views on what is good and what is bad and on how we judge between the two.
●Even more important is to know where other people are.
www.Tes.co.uk :Morality, Ethics and Religious Philosophy
http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/moral-dilemmas-6197310/
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=orality&FORM=HDRSC2#view=detail&id=5A3A0E60D0FB3C520DCCADF33E6A3F3F4597ECCF&selectedIndex=12