Utilitarianism and Kant's Categorical Imperative Ethics Lecture + Guided Notes

This high school ethics lesson focuses on utilitarianism and Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative. Included you will find the following:

• 17 slides in PowerPoint and Google Slides™ formats with extensive teacher's notes
• Guided Notes for students
• Printable PDF of the lecture's speaker notes
• A "Happiness Scale" activity
• Reading questions to go along with Flowers for Algernon with answer key
• Link to a PDF copy of Flowers for Algernon
• The Queen vs, Dudley and Stephens reading and questions and answer key
• Ted Talk questions for What Moral Decisions Should Driverless Cars Make?

This lesson follows the Introduction to Ethics lesson. Topics covered in this Utilitarianism lesson include: a brief introduction to ethics, the history of Utilitarianism and Epicureanism, Jeremy Bentham and Classical Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill, Act and Rule Utilitarianism, a brief introduction to Peter Singer's ideas of Utilitarianism and Applied Ethics, the Categorical Imperative and Kant, The Golden Rule, and Deontology. This lesson was designed for an IB Philosophy class so the rigor and depth is intended for that program but it works for any high school philosophy ethics unit.

Please take a look at the preview to get an idea of the teacher's notes included with the slides. You will also find 6 of the 11 questions for the A Fool Satisfied/Flowers for Algernon reading activity in the preview.

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