Students apply Aquinas’s doctrine of double effect to real world scenarios and evaluate its strengths & weaknesses. Applications include some of the later topics e.g. in medical ethics, sexual ethics & war & peace.
Lesson 3 of a 5 part series
- Fully resourced lesson with PowerPoint & worksheet.
- Pedagogical approach based on Rosenshine’s principles
- Recap of prior learning
- Worked examples
- L/Os revisited throughout the lesson
- Question bank for class tests.
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Edexcel Ethics Unit 2 Bundle (New Spec)
Contains everything you need for Unit 2: Utilitarianism, Natural Law, & Situationism (including Barclay text). * Purpose-built for the new spec. * Fully resourced lessons with PowerPoints & worksheets. * Pedagogical approach based on Rosenshine’s principles * Recap of prior learning & worked examples * Includes a large question bank & topic tests with answers for peer marking. **Scheme of work** **Utilitarianism** 1. Social, Political, & Historical Background 2. Act vs Rule Utilitarianism 3. Hedonism & Utilitarianism 4. Ideal, preference, & negative utilitarianism 5. Strengths & Weaknesses 6. Topic test. **Natural Moral Law** 7. Natural moral law: biblical & classical foundations 8. Aquinas on natural moral law 9. Doctrine of double effect 10. Proportionalism 11. Evaluation of NML 12. NML topic test **Situation Ethics** 13. Biblical examples & social, political, & cultural influences 14. Fletcher’s situation ethics 15. Extract 1: William Barclay 16. Topic test **Review** 17. Moral Theories & Religion 18. Changes in the law & social attitudes
Natural Moral Law Bundle (Edexcel New Spec)
Covers natural moral law from biblical foundations through to contemporary adaptations. * Purpose-built for the new spec. * Fully resourced lessons with PowerPoints & worksheets. * Pedagogical approach based on Rosenshine’s principles * Recap of prior learning & worked examples * Supported by a large question bank & 3 topic tests with answers for peer marking. Click, print, teach! **Scheme of Work: ** 1. natural moral law: biblical & classical foundations 2. Aquinas on natural moral law 3. Doctrine of double effect 4. Proportionalism 5. Evaluation of NML 6. NML topic tests
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Very concise and helpful. My students really got a lot out of this
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