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Revision Roadshow. AS Ethics & Philosophy. 1. Introduction. Jenga blocks where do we start? Moral courage how do we use it? Connections can we make them within and between subjects? Goals what are the goals of ethics?. 2. Slide. Revision Roadshow. AS Ethics & Philosophy. Timeline.

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  1. Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy 1

  2. Introduction • Jenga blockswhere do we start? • Moral couragehow do we use it? • Connectionscan we make them within and between subjects? • Goalswhat are the goals of ethics? 2 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  3. Timeline AUTONOMY I make the moral law for myself by an a priori process There is one intrinsic good PLEASURE There is one intrinsic good PLEASURE but...there are higher and lower types of it. AGAPE is very demanding. Can we really follow it? 3 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  4. A Constructed World 4 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  5. Kant and Utilitarian Assumptions • Kantian Assumption 1Autonomy - I have this freedom to reason • Assumption 2Noumenal realm - free from all influences (feelings) • Utilitarian Assumption 1Pleasure is one intrinsic good • Assumption 2Pleasure can be measured and added up 5 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  6. Plato’s World of the Forms 6 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

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  8. Change and Permanence: Cave and Forms Assumptions • That there is another realm (Aristotle disagreed with this) • That this world is not as real as the realm of the forms 8 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

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  10. Would you save a stranger? 10 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

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  12. Kant’s Deontological Absolutism 12 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  13. Mill’s Rule Utilitarianism 13 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  14. The Ontological Argument and the Puzzle Box OR OR 14 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  15. Plato’s World of the Forms 15 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  16. Two Incisive Questions for Anselm An interview with Anselm: Your group has the chance to interview the originator of this argument, but you only have two questions to challenge his premises and sequencing. Anselm was, reluctantly, enthroned the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093, so you cannot ask him about the issue of women bishops. What are your two incisive questions? 16 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  17. Kant’s objection Existence is not a necessary predicate of God ‘What is logically possible may not [ie, does not have to be] ontologically possible’. (Peter Vardy) Text “All existential statements are synthetic”. (Hume)ext 17 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  18. Opening the puzzle box Task: See if you can open the puzzle box by putting the stages of this argument and counter-arguments in the correct sequence. Clue: - think: Anselm and Gaunilo, Descartes, Kant, Hume, Norman. 18 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  19. What’s wrong with this argument? Premise 1: If there is physical proof for something, it exists.Premise 2: There is no physical proof for God.Conclusion: God does not exist. 19 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  20. Science and religion Two questions:How should religious texts be read? 2. Do scientific theories such as the Big Bang and evolution automatically leave no room for God? 20 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

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  22. Evolution, Irreducible Complexity and Design ‘By irreducibly complex I mean a single system composed of several well-matched, interacting parts that contribute to the basic function, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning." Behe 22 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  23. Two questions • Did all the parts always work together in that process? • Are there any closed systems in the body? 23 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  24. Abortion and Beliefs • A metaphysical question “what is a person”?A question of who or what counts, and who counts most? (Mother, foetus, family) • “Personhood” • Singer “entities with a sense of a past and a future” • Warren “consciousness, self-awareness, • communicating ability” • Noonan “foetus is a neighbour” 24 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  25. IVF treatments and right to a child • The recent caseWhat is meant by a “right”?Who does the right refer to? Gays? Single parents? Unmarried couples?Who is to supply this right, guarantee it and pay for it? 25 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  26. Evaluate Kant: The Crazy Axeman 26 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  27. Happiness the Strokes 27 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  28. Does the End Justify The Means? • Jim and the Indians • A contemporary example? • Can utilitarianism ever protect rights absolutely? Text 28 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  29. Calculating Happiness • Based on probable outcomes. But as the tragedy of the royal nurse shows, the improbable often happens. • It’s challenging always to calculate - so Mill introduces rules we generally follow...until there’s a real clash of rules...then we become act utilitarians again. Text 29 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  30. The ethics toolkit • If the theory of Kantian ethics and utilitarianism were a tool in a toolbox, which would they be? 30 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

  31. Evaluate the day • A checklist of what you should have grasped - page 30 Text 31 Slide Revision Roadshow AS Ethics & Philosophy

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