Justice: What is the Right Thing to do?

Continuewatching the lecture from 13:09-onwards and answer the following questions...

1. Explain what categorical and consequentialist moral reasoning is by using one of the examples from the lecture.

1. What is meant by... "Once the familiar turns strange, it is never quite the same again"

1. What are the risks (good and bad) associated with studying with legal philosophy that we are warned of?

1. What is Jeremy Bentham's principle and what does it mean?

Re-examining R v Dudley & Stephens

1. Putting law aside, do you think the action is moral or immoral? (34:32)

1. What argument did you find most interesting that was put forward, what was it and why did it appeal to you?

1. Now reconsider your examination of this case would you give a guilty or not-guilty verdict to Dudley and Stephens?

1. If the spirit of the law is the greatest good for the greatest number of people did Dudley and Stephens act in the spirit of the law?