EXAM QUESTION PREDICTIONS ETHICS 2015

Every year I have some fun making predictions for the exam paper.

Every year I have some fun making predictions for the exam paper. Here are my predictions for ethics questions for OCR in 2015. Please don’t over-rely on them – they are useful for practise purposes but you should accompany them with the usual strategic preparation. For full tables of past questions and possible future questions go to www.pushmepress.com and get hold of my book How to Get an A Grade.

AS Ethics 2015 predictions OCR

    1. a) Explain, with examples, the difference between deontological and teleologica lethics.

        b) “Deontological ethics is inflexible’. Discuss

  1. a) Explain the ethical theory of Natural Law   b) “Natural Law is the best approach to issues surrounding euthanasia”. Discuss
  2. a) Explain a religious ethical approach to war.  b) “There can be no justice in war”. Discuss
  3. a) Compare and contrast John Stuart Mill’s and Peter Singer’s theories of

utilitarianism.

        b) “Mill’s utilitarianism is superior to Singer’s’. Discuss

     5. a) Explain how Kantian ethics produces the greatest good.

         b) “Following the Kantian categorical imperative is the best guide to issues

            surrounding abortion”. Discuss

AS Ethics 2014 Actual

 

a) Explain what is meant by relative morality.
b) To what extent are relativist ethics the best approach to genetic engineering?

a) Explain some of the different forms of utilitarianism.
b) Assess the view that Utilitarianism is the best approach to the right to a child.


a) Explain the approaches of the religion you have studied to pacifism.


b) ‘A true religious believer should not allow war’. Discuss.


a) Explain how the various formulations of the Categorical Imperative might be applied to an ethical issue.

b) ‘The Categorical Imperative has no serious weaknesses.’ Discuss.


A2 Ethics 2015 predictions

  1. “If hard determinism is true there can be no moral responsibility”.
  2. Critically assess the view that human beings have a moral duty to protect the environment.
  3. “Moral language expresses feelings. It cannot describe facts”. Discuss
  4. Assess the view that sexual ethics is up to the individual.
  5. Critically assess agent-centred (another word for Virtue Ethics) as opposed to law-centred theories of ethics (another word for deontological ethics, best take Kant here) as a guide to practical decision-making.

A2 Ethics June 2014 actual

1. To what extent is conscience vital when making moral decisions?

2. Critically assess the view that Utilitarianism is of no use when making decisions about sexual ethics.

3. ‘Our moral choices are completely determined by our upbringing and social conditioning.’ Discuss.

4. Critically assess the view that businesses have a religious moral duty to put their employees first.