Information of things past Well rested and restored I hope Some of the best AS results ever On average a grade above your target 77 AB including 9 As 85 AC 100 AD Resits questions discussions see me at the end of lesson ID: 363692
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Welcome Back…Slide2
Information of things past…
Well rested and restored I hope
Some of the best AS results ever!!!
On average, a grade above your target
77% A-B (including 9 As)
85% A-C
100% A-D
Re-sits, questions, discussions; see me at the end of lesson
Very, very pleased…Slide3
Information of things present…
Folders
Checklists
Assessment Sheets
Front Sheets
New Textbooks…
Expectations - Reading and notes (scholars, quotes, key terms
etc
), classroom engagement (self-assessed)Slide4
Information of things to come…
Meta-ethics, virtue ethics, free will, conscience, sexual ethics, business ethics, environmental ethics
One 35 mark essay not split (includes understanding, knowledge and evaluation)Slide5
“The riches of this world are perishable and the only constants are virtue and the happiness of love.”
Voltaire
One of my favourite quotesSlide6
“The riches…Slide7
…of this world…Slide8
…are perishable…Slide9
…and the only constants…Slide10
…are virtue…Slide11
…and the happiness of love.”Slide12
Cogs Turning Starter
Two minutes with partner, a favourite ethics quote of yours.
Discuss who it was by and what it was saying.
Class shareSlide13
WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN???Slide14
Meta-ethics
Learning Objectives:-
To understand what meta-ethics means and what some of the key terms relating to it mean
To explore an outline of the unit
To consider the meaning of ethical language Slide15
Meta-ethics
It accuses ethics and moral philosophy of being a meaningless pursuit. In this way it is similar to existentialism. This is the only way it is similar to existentialism!
Extension – A reading list from the library please…Slide16
Introduction
Mainly what we have studied so far is normative ethics, that is, how do we behave?
Meta-ethics comes from meta (beyond) ethics and is a ‘back to basics’ question of the meaning of ethical statements and language.
Epistemology – Knowledge (origins of knowledge)Slide17
Meta-ethical Questions
What do we mean by ‘good’ and ‘bad’ and ‘right’ and ‘wrong’?
What do you think? What are some of the answers we have looked at so far?
Do such concepts exist beyond human feeling?
What is this asking? Give a theory on either side of this.
If they do, what does it mean to behave well?Slide18
Back to Basics
Fundamental Question of meta-ethics…
What is truth? And how can we discover it?
Divine Command Theory? Empiricism?Slide19
Empiricism
David Hume said truth must be verified through observation and experience.
Ethical naturalism (GE Moore) applies this to morality by asserting that the truth of ethical language
eg
‘good’ ‘bad’ ‘right’ ‘wrong’ can only be known through observation and experience of nature. Slide20
Summary
At the beginning of last year, I used the metaphor of a car mechanic working on a Ford Fiesta to describe this course. The car is morality, and you, the mechanic, must work out what is right or wrong with it. You must examine it and get it working. Yours tools are arguments.
In threes, work out where meta-ethics might fit into this metaphor