1. On your whiteboard: Remember from September:
What is the difference between teleological and deontological ethical theories?

3. Key Questions: What is teleology? What is hedonism?
How does a utilitarian make moral decisions?
Is this a good way of making decisions?

4. Hedonism Good = pleasure Bad = pain
The only thing that is intrinsically good is pleasure, and the only thing that is intrinsically bad is pain.
Good = pleasure
Bad = pain

5. Jeremy Bentham What does this mean?
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.”
What does this mean?

6. Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is an ethical theory. It is teleological and hedonistic. So, Utilitarianism says that the right action is…

7. In your groups:
Look at the situation on your sheet. Discuss the following:
What would a utilitarian do?
Why?
Do you agree with the utilitarian decision?
Why/why not?

8. What would a utilitarian do?
Shoot one person to save 10,000?
Shoot one person to save 2 people?
Give your drug-addicted friend lots of heroin, or send him to rehab?
Come to college, or stay at home and watch TV?
Kill baby Hitler or save baby Hitler?
Save the doctor or save your mum?

9. Final question…
You have started to apply utilitarianism to some basic ethical decisions.
If you wanted to use it to make all your decisions, what more do you need to know?

11. Key Questions: What is teleology? What is hedonism?
How does a utilitarian make moral decisions?
Is this a good way of making decisions?