Ethics: Consequences, Duties, and Character: Philosophy Unit 4, Grade 12 (Letters & Devotion)

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Ethics: Consequences, Duties, and Character is Unit 4 of Philosophy and Logic: Reasoning About Reality, Knowledge, and Value (Grade 12), the Letters & Devotion Philosophy course, complete in one printable PDF: 10 lessons, the unit check-up and the answer key, 108 pages.

• Act utilitarianism’s decision procedure (maximizing aggregate well-being)
• The act/rule distinction within utilitarianism
• The categorical imperative’s universalizability test
• The distinction between a contradiction-in-conception and a bad-consequences objection to a maxim
• The practical-wisdom (phronesis) decision procedure in virtue ethics
• The trolley problem and its footbridge variant, analyzed comparatively across all three ethical frameworks
• The distinction between factual disagreement and normative disagreement, applied to a novel dilemma
• The strongest-form arguments for moral realism and moral anti-realism
• The distinction between the rightness of an act and the moral standing of the reason/motivation behind it
• A two-framework charitable reconstruction and fact/value analysis of a self-selected contested case

Every lesson is written for a parent with no teaching background: it opens with a short script to read aloud, names the specific wrong idea a student is likely to reach for and how to correct it, and closes with a practice sheet you may copy for your household. Scripture references are King James Version throughout. Black-and-white, 8.5 x 11 in. The whole year of this course is also in this store as a single book.

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