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What is good?

What is good?. Tell your partner an example of 1 object 1 experience 1 person which you would describe as “good”. **Is there a “good” that all these things have in common? . To define good and evil (Level 3) To distinguish 2 types of evil with examples (level 4-5)

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What is good?

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  1. What is good? • Tell your partner an example of • 1 object • 1 experience • 1 person • which you would describe as “good” • **Is there a “good” that all these things have in common?

  2. To define good and evil (Level 3) • To distinguish 2 types of evil with examples (level 4-5) • To evaluate whether natural evil is really evil (Level 6-7) Homework: Draw a title page for the unit “Good and Evil” Lesson 1: What is Good & Evil? Unit: GOOD AND EVIL

  3. There are different ways in which something can be “good”. It might be “good” because • it’s healthy eg fruit is good for you • Its desirable to have egiPhones are good • It’s excellent in some way eg Hunger Games is a good film • Its’ the right thing to do eg telling the truth is good Think of an example of each kind of “good” for each heading Which of these meanings of “good” do you usually think of ? Explain why. **write a definition of what good is. Good = whatever is right, healthy, desirable, excellent

  4. “Good”, like the colour yellow, can’t be explained. It can only be understood by personal experience. The philosopher G.E. Moore thought about all these different meanings of “good” and decided that... What do you think this means? Clue: Think about the colour yellow. Can that be explained? How do we “understand” what yellow is? How is the idea of “good” similar? Do you agree with G.E. Moore that you can’t really explain to someone what “good” is – you can only know it by experience? Does your previous definition of good explain it to someone, or not?

  5. mindmap different ideas of what evil is. Use these to write a definition of evil **What types of evil are there? So… what is evil ? • Whatever prevents good, is harmful, unhealthy, wrong and undesirable. Evil

  6. Watch the movie. What are the 2 types of evil that it is showing? Give your own definition & example of natural evil Give your own definition & example of moral evil **Could something be both a natural evil AND a moral evil ? Think of an example.

  7. I think natural evil IS/ IS NOT real evil because…

  8. Decide what each evidence suggests. Then, considering all the evidence, make an overall conclusion about whether natural evil is real evil or not.

  9. Is it right to call natural disasters like volcanoes and floods “evil”? Yes - 10 plagues Yes - Some of it is caused by human activity No - Just a natural event Yes - Noah’s flood No – nobody caused them to happen Yes – they cause pain and suffering, accidental or not

  10. Fill in the Gaps !

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