1. Morality Review Ensure you have your folder and your completed work from page 3 of your National 4/5 Booklet. We are going to spend 5 min going over your answers

2. 17/08/14 Utilitarianism Learning Intentions Explain the meaning of utilitarianism Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this ethical view. Success Criteria  Contribute to class discussion  Create own examples of utilitarianism in action

3. Have you ever been outnumbered? (eg More people wanted to do an activity than you so you had to do what they all wanted) What happened? Was it fair? Why? How did you feel?

4. The Trolley Problem...

5. Group work Read ‘The Trolley Problem’ Discuss as a group: 1)SHOULD you push the lever? 2)WOULD you push the lever? 3)Why did you come to this decision? 4)What factors did you use to make your decision?

6. Did your answer produce the ‘greatest amount of goodness for the greatest number of people’?

7. What is Utilitarianism? It is hard to make difficult decisions... Some people called have thought up rules that people can use to help them make a difficult decision. Utilitarianism Utilitarianism says that a moral decision should be made based on whether it makes the most amount of people happy. ‘...The greatest good for the greatest number’ It is sometimes call the Greatest Happiness Principle It is focused on an action that produces the greatest amount of pleasure and least amount of pain

8. Utilitarianism Starter Task: Jokers Social Experiment Answer the following questions in your jotter on this scene from The Dark Knight. 1.Describe the experiment that the Joker has set up using the ferry of passengers and the ferry of criminals. 2.How do the ferry of passengers decide what to do and what is their decision? 3.If a utilitarian was making the decision what would they do ?(remember the GHP) Explain your answer. 4.What would you have decided? Why?

9. Pair and Share Utilitarianism is pretty straight forward – something is right if it makes the most amount of people happy……..however, does that mean it is always a good way to make decisions?? Working with the person beside you try to come up with two strengths and two weaknesses of making all of your decisions about right/wrong actions this way. StrengthsWeaknesses 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

10. Questions for your notes Utilitarianism is a theory of how to.......................................... An example of this is........................................ Two good things (strengths) about it are........................................ One bad thing (weakness) about it is.......................................... How helpful is Utilitarianism in helping somebody to make a right decision? Explain your ideas, using examples. Utilitarianism is a the best and fairest way for deciding what to do in a difficult situation. Agree or disagree? Why? EXT: Would you say our school was or was not linked to utilitarianism? Explain your view.

11. Act Utilitarianism Each act should be judged on its ability to bring about the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people. Act Utilitarian's will judge each action individually. A mum stealing a loaf of bread to feed her starving family – who is happy/unhappy? Problems: Majority could be wrong!!

12. Rule Utilitarianism This means there is a set of rules that everyone should follow at all times. These rules have been decided as they should make the greatest amount of people happy at all times. For example; No murder/No stealing/No lies Think! What problems might arise by following a set of rules all of the time?

13. You’re the Prime Minister! In pairs you are now the government,. Basing laws on utilitarianism, which laws would you choose? I want you to produce your ‘Top 10’ rules for the country. You need to discuss these and agree on them. You need to be able to explain why you have chosen these to the rest of the class. EXTENSION: Can you envisage any conflicts with your laws? How do you think the general public would respond to your laws?

14. Homework For Friday Complete page 5 of your booklet – answers in your jotter.