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Essay Mark Scheme: Corporate Religious Experience

Corporate Religious Experience ‘Corporate religious experiences prove the existence of God.  Discuss’ Jan 2012 Q2 OCR Candidates may begin by defining…

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Essay Mark Scheme: Hume and Miracles

Evaluate Hume’s claim that miracles are the least likely of events. [35] AO1 Jan 2011 Q4 Many candidates will recognise a paraphrase…

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Essay Mark Scheme: Resurrection v incarnation

‘Resurrection is more likely to be true than reincarnation.’ Discuss. [35] AO1 Q3 Jan 2011 Candidates may begin by explaining exactly what…

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Essay Mark Scheme: Analogy And Myth

Critically compare the use of myth with the use of analogy to express the human understanding of God. [35] AO1 Jan 2011…

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Essay Mark Scheme: Four Causes

Mark Scheme (A) Explain Aristotle’s understanding of the four causes. [25] (A01 June 2011) Candidates may be aware that Aristotle developed his…

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Essay Mark Scheme: Hume and Cosmological Argument

Mark Scheme (A) Explain Hume’s criticisms of the Cosmological Argument. [25] June 2011 Candidates may begin by exploring the fact that…

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3.3 Simon Blackburn on the issues arising

EXTRACT ABORTION and PERSONHOOD Simon Blackburn page 54 A good first philosophical question to ask might be whether this black and…

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Extract 2: John Hare – The Moral Argument

 The Moral Gap  by John E. Hare (pages 91-2) According to Kant, Spinoza will constantly experience the lack of fit between what…

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Extract 1: JL Mackie’s objections to Kant’s Moral Argument

JL Mackie – The Miracle of Theism (pages 110-115) But in whichever of these ways we interpret his conclusion, Kant’s argument…

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Powerpoint: Religion And Morality

A powerpoint by Dr Guy Williams examining the link between religion and morality by a discussion of Euthyphro’s Dilemma and the…

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