1. By the end of this lesson you will have:
Ethical Intuitionism
By the end of this lesson you will have:
Learnt the features of ethical intuitionism
Applied this to an Essay
Considered the extent to which ethical intuitionism is a response to ethical naturalism

2. Homework – Due 23rd November
DUE TODAY: I will be checking that you have completed your revision notes
DUE NEXT WEEK:
* Re-write your virtue ethics assessment using my comments to make amendments, Where you make amendments WRITE THESE IN A DIFFERENT COLOUR so I can see that you have made the changes. You can re-write this either on paper or typed up.
* Complete essay planning in your booklet for ‘explain ethical naturalism’ and ‘explain the challenges against ethical naturalism’

3. Spec Check Ethical Naturalism Challenges
Objective moral laws exist independently of human beings; moral truths can be discovered by using our minds in an intuitive way; intuitive ability is innate and the same for all moral agents; intuition needs a mature mind so not infallible; allows for objective moral values. H.A Prichard; ‘ought to do’ has no definition; recognition of what we ‘ought to do’ by intuition; two ways of thinking (general and moral)
No proof of moral intuition exists; intuitive ‘truths’ can differ widely; no obvious way to resolve conflicting intuitions
Whether moral terms are intuitive
The extent to which ethical statements are not objective

4. Essay Feedback – Dos and Don’ts
Stick to the PEEL (Ao1) and PESEL (Ao2) structure
Put A02 material in AO1
Answer the whole of the question
Stick to suggested lenghts – Ao1 around 2 sides of A4 and Ao2 around 2.5/3 sides
Stick to the specification – use the key words
Use extra scholars from the reading log

5. Starter - Cryptogram
Complete the cryptogram on intuitionism on page 39
THEN: Discuss with your partner – what is intuitionism?

6. Intuitionism - Task
Read pages 40&41 on intuitionism and make notes on an A3 sheet of paper

7. Moore’s Intuitionism
Ethical values can’t be defined – e.g. I can’t say ‘it is wrong to kill’
However, there are moral truths which are self-evident – our intuition (gut instinct) (Objective moral laws exist independently of human beings)
We discover these truths by reasoning and thinking about situations. (moral truths can be discovered by using our minds in an intuitive way)
These truths are objective and exist independently of human beings – which just can’t make statements out of them. They are true for everyone.
E.G everyone’s intuition teaches them that murder is wrong

8. Moore’s Intuitionism
Moore’s evidence for this is that people tend to have the same gut feeling (or intuition) about certain moral truths. (intuitive ability is innate and the same for all moral agents)
Therefore, some things are intrinsically right or wrong
When you ask a group of people ‘what is good’ they have a similar intuition, but commit a fallacy if they start trying to define good in words
For Moore, good is indefinable.

9. Moore’s Intuitionism
However, Moore does concede that whilst moral truths are OBJECTIVE and most people have a mind mature enough to understand their intuition, not everyone has the ability to access their intuition (intuition needs a mature mind so not infallible)
E.g Children or people with mental disturbances can’t access their intuition.
This doesn’t mean that the moral truth doesn’t exist, it just means not everyone can access it

10. Prichard’s Intuitionism
Prichard agreed with Moore on the basis of humans having an intuition which reveals moral truths
TASK: Read Page 52 of your reading log on Prichard and draw a Venn diagram which represents the similarities and differences between Prichard’s and Moore’s ideas

11. H.A Prichard Agrees that no definition can be made of ‘ought’
Agrees that we all recognise the properties of ‘good’
Believed there were two types of thinking ; reason and intuition
Reason = looks at the facts of a situation
Intuition = shows us where our moral obligation lies
So Intuition helps us answer moral truths, and reason helps us answer other worldly truths
H.A Prichard; ‘ought to do’ has no definition; recognition of what we ‘ought to do’ by intuition; two ways of thinking (general and moral)

12. Essay Planning Using your essay planning booklet, let’s plan:
‘Explain Ethical Intuitionism’ (20)

13. By the end of this lesson you will have:
Ethical Intuitionism
By the end of this lesson you will have:
Learnt the features of ethical intuitionism
Applied this to an Essay
Considered the extent to which ethical intuitionism is a response to ethical naturalism

14. Challenges against Intuitionism
By the end of this lesson you will have:
Understood the three challenges against intuitionism
Collaborated as a group to think about the challenges yourselves
Planned an AO2 essay on the challenges

15. Spec Check Ethical Naturalism Challenges
Objective moral laws exist independently of human beings; moral truths can be discovered by using our minds in an intuitive way; intuitive ability is innate and the same for all moral agents; intuition needs a mature mind so not infallible; allows for objective moral values. H.A Prichard; ‘ought to do’ has no definition; recognition of what we ‘ought to do’ by intuition; two ways of thinking (general and moral)
No proof of moral intuition exists; intuitive ‘truths’ can differ widely; no obvious way to resolve conflicting intuitions
Whether moral terms are intuitive
The extent to which ethical statements are not objective

16. Reading & Writing Read pages 41 and 52 of your reading logs
Each pair will be given a title to write a paragraph on.
No proof of moral intuition exists
Intuitive ‘truths’ can differ widely
No obvious way to resolve conflicting intuitions

17. No proof of moral intuition exists
Intuitionism may be considered meaningless as it is non-verifiable.
We can’t actually prove empirically that intuitions exist
This might mean people are reluctant to believe intuitionism
This undermines its validity and its objectivity

18. Intuitive truths differ widely
In practise, children or people with mental difficulties may not be able to access their intuition
Indeed, even adults of mature minds can have differing intuitions
These can be influenced by religion and culture
This makes it a challenge because it undermines the objectivity and validity

19. No way to resolve conflicting intuitions
Some people have different intuitions as to what is right or wrong, despite us all apparently having access to an objective truth through intuition
If two people have differing intuitions, how do you prove who is right or wrong.
This could create conflict of opinion
For example, some people’s intuitions believe sex before marriage is wrong, others tells them it is okay…how do we know who is right?