SWOT ANALYSIS on the ETHICAL CHALLENGES: SELF, SOCIETY AND ENVIRONMENT

Ethics Strength Weaknesses Opportunities Threats

Aristotle’s
Virtue Ethics

Aquinas’ Natural
Law

Kantian Ethics
(Deontology,
Categorical
Imperative)

Utilitarianism
(Mill / Bentham)

In a group of 5 students as members, do a SWOT Analysis of the major ethical theories. Use 1
whole sheet of a yellow pad paper. Do not forget to write your names on it.
STRENGHT – In what way are these ethical theories considered efficient? Provide a concrete
example. Limit your answer to 5 sentences only.
WEAKNESSES – What are the possible inefficiencies of these ethical theories when applied to
the self, society, and the environment?
OPPORTUNITIES – What are the possible factors that could improve the individual person, the
society, or the environment when these ethical theories are observed?
THREATS – What could possibly give harm or threaten people, the society or the environment in
advocating these ethical theories? Again, limit your answer to 5 sentences only.

THIS ACTIVITY MUST BE ACCOMPLISHED WITHIN THE CLASS PERIOD.