Transcript Different cultures express different moral codes of conduct.

LO: I will know Mill’s approach to
Utilitarianism
Homework: Over half term, read and
make notes on utilitarianism.
Note: Your tracker assessment will be
shortly after half term
 What
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do you remember from last lesson?
“Some kinds of pleasures are more desirable and
more valuable than others, it would be absurd
that while, in estimating all other things, quality
is not also considered as well as quantity.”
For Mill, it is intellectual pleasures (e.g. reading
poetry or listening to music) that really count
and are more important than such pleasures as
eating, drinking or having sex.
2
people: 1 is Bentham & 1 is Mill
 Give them the scenarios from your homework
& they take it in turns to answer from the
perspective of Bentham & Mill
Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very
tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but
by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young
persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their
position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it
has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher
capacity in exercise. Men lose their high aspirations as they
lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or
opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to
inferior pleasures not because they deliberately prefer them,
but because they are either the only ones to which they have
access or the only ones which they are any longer capable of
enjoying.
Key idea: You can cultivate (develop) good taste by increased
exposure to better things.
By indulging only in ‘lesser pleasures’ we can lose our ‘good taste.’
Once our ‘good taste’ is lost  we are no longer competent judges!
What
are the similarities and
differences between Bentham &
Mill’s approach
‘The greatest good for the greatest number is the best framework to
use for tackling ethical dilemmas’
RULES:
1. If you are on one of the debating teams, you will be individually
representing your side in one of a number of head to heads!
2. Carefully prepare your points and questions as a group, but
remember, when the debate begins, you’re on your own!
3. The judges decision is final.
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1 minute on what your
response is to the title
1 minute explaining why your
opponent is wrong.
3 questions aimed to trouble
your opponent.
A 30 second summary
explaining why you’ve won.
 Hot
seating