Course Number & Philo 32.

1 BioEthics
Description
Date February 4, 2016
FACITATION PLAN
Topic Introduction to Duty Ethics
Materials Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Morality Book
Procedure: 4A Facilitation Plan
A. Preparatory 1. Checking of Attendance
Stage 2. Review on Utilitarianism
B. Learning Stage
1. Activity Storytelling: The Nurse Dilemma, Edmund Ross-The Ethical
Hero
2. Analysis Objectives:
At the end of the period, the students are expected to:
1. Understand and define the nature of duty
2. Identify the problems in Duty Ethics

Questions:
1. What will you do if you are the nurse?
2. Imagine if you are Edmund Ross, will you do the
same?
3. Can you identify some motives of your everyday
actions?

3. Abstraction 1. The lesson will begin with a storytelling to set their

minds for the next topic
2. Interactive discussion will proceed
4. Application An Assignment will be given, and answer the following:
a. Identify a common moral dilemma that deals with
conflict of duty and interest.
b. Asses the morality of both sides of possible course of
action

C. Values 1. Is it always and necessary to follow the dictate of duty

Life Lesson because it is the right thing to do?
2. Are exemptions (such as breaking a law) morally
justifiable?
 Ph 31.3 General Ethics with PERSON Program
February 4, 2016

Facilitation Plan

I. Learning Outcomes

At the end of the facilitation/class, students are expected to:

 Understand Essential and Fundamental Principle of Utilitarianism.
 Differentiate between Act and Rule Utilitarianism.
 Evaluate by themselves how their experience of decision was.
 Live a life that is filled with discernment. A student who knows how it takes to
really discern is a grounded student/person. (Ignatian Principle of Discernment)

II. Topics

Utilitarian Ethics
Consequentialist Ethical Theory
Act vs Rule Utilitarianism
A Hedonist Morality
Qualitative and Quantitative Pleasures
Greatest Happiness Principle
The Hedonic Calculus

III. Materials

A. Reading Material on Utilitarian Ethics by Ambong Fernandez

B. Bond Papers

IV. Procedures

A. Preparatory Stage
(The students were tasked to read the text and prepare questions for interactive
discussion.)

B. Learning Stage

1. Activity
Students will be given 2 minutes to write at least three questions about the
topic.
2. Analysis
a.) What concerns you most when you are in a moral dilemma?
b.) Why was it a concern?
c.) What does it mean to make a good and sound decision? Does it
necessarily have to be a perfect decision that the prediction of the
consequences are accurate?
d.) Why can’t we choose not to be free? Why are we not free from
making decisions?
e.) Why are our choices always subjected to that of the two masters;
pain and pleasure?
 3. Abstraction

a.) With the aid of their reading materials/text, teacher discusses the
lesson while evaluating the level of questions the students have
raised.
b.) The class will be in an interactive discussion, i.e. the students are
highly encouraged to speak their opinion and raise questions.

4. Application

a.) The students will group themselves in a four member group wherein
they are given cases.
b.) The students are now asked to deliberate a case assigned to them as
a group.
c.) The students are asked to write the output of the moral
deliberation.

C. Life Lessons/Values:

a. In life, why is it necessary to ask the right kinds of questions?

b. Why is it that we cannot choose not to be free from making a decision?
c. Why is it necessary to really deliberate and discern with the choices
that we are going to make? (Ignatian Principle of Discernment)
d. Choices they are makes us who we are.