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KS3 & KS4 religious education curriculum

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Year 8

Ethics: how do we know what is 'good'?

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  • Values and morality

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In this unit pupils will use a philosophical lens to consider what we mean by good. They will examine various ethical answers given such deontology, utilitarianism and situation ethics. They will conclude by weighing up the issue of suffering in the world.

Pupils will consider what makes life good. It allows for personal knowledge to be developed through consideration of philosophers and introduces the situation ethics in advance of the Messiah unit and natural and moral evil in preparation for the unit on the problem of evil at the end of the year.

  1. The nature of human goodness
  2. Deontology and Immanuel Kant
  3. Teleology and utilitarianism
  4. Situation ethics
  5. Virtue ethics
  6. Suffering and compassion
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