Danielle Watts 24 February 2012 Teaching in a Specialist Subject * Summarise key aims of education and training within your own specialist area. * Review and discuss the key philosophical issues associated with these. * Summarise key qualifications in your specialist area‚ and their structure. Outline your approach to the planning and preparation of a course within your specialism and justify how this meets the aims. * Discuss how well your approach to planning and preparation
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and wrong on the production of happiness. It is also an ethical philosophy that stresses the greatest happiness of the greatest number as seen from an impartial bystander’s perspective. Before we discuss how Mozi’s philosophy can be applied to utilitarian morality‚ a distinction within utilitarianism must be made. Act Utilitarianism vs. Rule Utilitarianism Generally speaking‚ there are two kinds of utilitarianism‚ act utilitarianism and rule utilitarianism. Each type of utilitarianism agrees
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A utilitarian believes in the action for the good for all people. This would mean that a Utilitarian would agree with the magistrate’s decision on framing the innocent man. The reason behind this agreement is that since the one man being killed is saving lives and saving chaos it makes it ethical‚ from a utilitarian standpoint. According to utilitarianism one must consider the consequences of a certain action. So in this case the magistrate must weigh the pros and cons of the decision to execute
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According to Immanuel Kant’s ethical theory‚ an act is only morally right if we can will it to be a universal law of conduct. This ideal is what Kant called the "categorical imperative." The categorical imperative has been successfully achieved when all of the following conditions have been met: the act in question is possible for everyone to follow; all rational people must be able to accept the act as if they were receiving the treatment themselves‚ and last‚ the act can never treat people as means
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HFD 1 Descriptive methodology = positive methodology: how it is Positus ( ponere = put‚ place) e.g. position Prescriptive methodology= normative methodology”: how it ought to be Norm Logical positvism = Logicism = Scientific language is an extension of logic Positivism = Empiricism (Knowledge arises out of sense experience) The main aim of the logical positivist program was to demarcate (grenzen vaststellen van ) scientitific knowledge‚ distinguish science form pseudo-science and
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Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake focuses on the negative impacts of Capitalism. Capitalism is the cause of all the struggle in this dystopian world. Capitalism is the cause of the destruction of the human race because‚ it gives all the power to the Compounds‚ it creates a toxic concoction of science and business‚ and it promotes its ideology through propaganda. In Atwood’s dystopian world‚ capitalism is a method of control. The type of control used is biotechnological – in the form of diseases.
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greatest number of people. Utilitarians describe moral actions as actions that boost something good and lessen something that is bad. Virtue‚ knowledge‚ and goodwill are all good but they are only good if they give people a pleasurable existence. Pain is the only thing that is intrinsically bad. Utilitarians focus on the result of an act instead of the inherent nature of the act. An example would be an individual throwing their garbage into the ocean. Utilitarians would say throwing garbage
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optimize utility in the situation; this will make the utilitarian point always abjectly correct. Under this systems your personal intentions count just like one vote and your fate can be decided by other people. As an example of this moral theory in practice you can observe: the human sacrifices
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behave. The problems arise when the time comes to punish a criminal. There are disagreements over the severity of a crime‚ the mentality of the criminal‚ and the correct penalty that should result from that crime among other things. Kant and the Utilitarian perspective on crime and punishment do not coincide. Both philosophical viewpoints seem convincing in their own right‚ but not without flaws. One is simply the better way to reason through the issue at hand as it relates to society as a whole.
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“What is Utilitarianism?” Ask a passerby to describe his personal morality‚ and you’ll likely get a complicated explanation filled with ifs‚ ands‚ and buts. Ask a utilitarian‚ and he can give a six-word response: greatest good for the greatest number. Of course‚ utilitarianism is not that simple. Like any philosophical system‚ it is the subject of endless debate. Still‚ for the average reader who is unfamiliar with the jargon that characterizes most philosophy‚ utilitarianism can be a useful tool
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