On your whiteboard: What do you understand by the term “equality”. Answer as fully as you can

Key Questions What is equality? What do secular scholars think about equality?

Which situation is more equal?

Secular perspectives on equality When two people have equal status, they should be treated equally. From the scholar Plato “treat like cases as like”. Kant – it is immoral to treat a person as a means to an end. All people should be treated as ends in themselves. Nagel - Fundamental equality means that people are alike in important relevant and specified respects alone, and not that they are all generally the same or can be treated in the same way.

Current law in the UK Which groups of people do you think are protected from discrimination?

“British society will never be completely equal” On your whiteboard, think of examples both for and against How far do you agree? – continuum line

Homework in the handout Page 4 and 5 record the Bible quotes At the bottom of page 4 Find out what happened in the six stories