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Unit 3 Moral Dilemmas Intended Learning Outcomes

This document discusses moral dilemmas and introduces a scenario as an example. It explains that being in a moral dilemma constitutes a moral experience. The scenario describes a group of people trapped in a cave with a pregnant woman stuck in the entrance as the tide comes in. Dynamite is available but would kill the woman if used to free her. Students are asked to consider what they would do in this situation and to define what constitutes a moral dilemma based on analyzing this scenario.

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Unit 3 Moral Dilemmas Intended Learning Outcomes

This document discusses moral dilemmas and introduces a scenario as an example. It explains that being in a moral dilemma constitutes a moral experience. The scenario describes a group of people trapped in a cave with a pregnant woman stuck in the entrance as the tide comes in. Dynamite is available but would kill the woman if used to free her. Students are asked to consider what they would do in this situation and to define what constitutes a moral dilemma based on analyzing this scenario.

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UNIT 3

MORAL DILEMMAS

Intended Learning Outcomes

 Explain moral dilemma as a moral dilemma and as a moral experience


 Distinguish between a moral dilemma and a false dilemma

Introduction

Now that you have understood what moral and non-moral standards are, you must have already an idea
of what moral experience is. If you find yourself in a moral dilemma, then you are in for a moral
experience.

Activity

Read “The Pregnant Lady and the Dynamite”, then answer the questions given:

A pregnant woman leading a group of five people out of the cave on a coast is stuck in the
mouth of that cave, in a short time, high tide will be upon them and unless she is unstuck, they will all be
droned except the woman whose head is pout of the cave. Fortunately (or unfortunately), someone has
with him a stick of dynamite. Thee seems to be no way to get the pregnant woman loose without using
the dynamite which will inevitably kill her. But if they do not use it, everyone else will drown. What
would hey do? (http”/psychopixi.com/author/pixil)

Analysis

1. What would you do if you were one of the men? Explain why you decided to act that way.
2. The situation or the experience you went though is a moral dilemma. What then is a moral
dilemma?
3. Is finding yourself in a moral experience a moral experience? Why or why not?

Instructions:

a. You have 45 minutes to read and answer the given questions.


b. Write your answer in a clean bond paper or yellow pad, or save them in your laptop or gadget in
the folder specifically intended for Ethics activities and assessments if you are using one.
c. If you wrote your answers in a yellow pad or bond paper, file them in the folder which I advised
you to have for all written activities in this course.

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