September 9, 2014 by

    Essay Guidelines: Virtue and emulation

    GUIDELINES In this section I consider carefully, and comment on,  the examiner’s report and mark scheme for a January 2013 question…

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    September 8, 2014 by

    Guidelines: a new section

    Guidelines are here to help you! I have created a new section on the site called ‘guidelines’. The idea here is,…

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    September 8, 2014 by

    Guidelines: Moral Relativism

    GUIDELINES – Moral relativism I have given extended comments on the examiner’s comments on the January 20111 abortion and relativism question…

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    August 28, 2014 by

    EXTRACT 8 Legitimate War a Catholic View

    Legitimate War Source: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of The Church © 500. A war of aggression is intrinsically immoral. In the tragic…

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    August 28, 2014 by

    Essay: Natural Law and Abortion

    a. Explain how a follower of Natural Law Theory might approach the issues surrounding abortion (25) b ‘Natural Law has no…

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    August 28, 2014 by

    2.4 Abortion and punishment of women

    Janet Radcliffe Richards abortion and punishment http://www.prochoiceforum.org.uk/al7.php As already stated, most views against abortion base their position from the value theyplace…

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    August 28, 2014 by

    UPDATE GE in 2013-15

    UPDATE: GE in 2015 In this new series, I regularly update the applied ethical issues, creating hyperlinks to newspaper articles that…

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    August 27, 2014 by

    Guidelines: Teleological/deontological questions

    a) Explain the differences between deontological and teleological approaches to ethical decision making. June 2012 Q4 (25 marks) In this series…

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    August 27, 2014 by

    Article: The Puzzle of Relativism

    The Puzzle of Relativism I wrote this article for Dialogue Magazine (Spring 2011). In it I explain that relativism has three…

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    August 26, 2014 by

    Moral Absolutes

    Moral absolutes I was intrigued at two articles in today’s newspaper which I think are ethically linked. One discussed how wealthy…

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