The Ethicist

The Ethicist has 168 ethical questions focussing on morality, moral reasoning, and issues of right and wrong.

Learners can select questions at random by clicking a button on the contents page.

The Ethicist promises hours of ethical thinking around the biggest questions concerning morality!

Suitable for secondary (mainly KS4 and KS5).

Designed so you can choose questions at random, or search through for ones you like.

Easily develop ethical debates in your lessons with little or no planning.

Engage learners in some of the biggest, most important debates in the history of ethics and moral philosophy.

Example Questions You’ll Find Inside

• What is a moral question?
• Are ethical judgements the same as knowledge judgements?
• Are there more moral states than right and wrong?
• If people know what is right, will they then do what is good?
• What does happiness mean?
• Is there a greatest good?
• What sort of consequences count as good consequences?
• How ought we to live?
• Does morality apply only within a society?
• Are there any objective values?
• Are we obliged to reciprocate?
• What constitutes a harm and what constitutes a benefit?
• Does sympathy underpin moral behaviour?
• Is pleasure the absence of suffering?
• Should we eat animals?