June 9, 2012 by

Summary: After Virtue

For a summary of MacIntyre’s entire book (1981, After Virtue) – which you can skim in a  few minutes, go to:…

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May 25, 2012 by

ADVANCED BOOK: Aristotle’s metaphysical bioiogy

In Tradition in the ethics of Aristotle and MacIntyre Christopher Luz explains what is menat by Arostotle’s metaphysical biology, and how…

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May 23, 2012 by

A2 Business ethics questions

Business ethics is highly likely to come up this year – so what sort of questions might they ask?  By the…

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May 4, 2012 by

A2 questions this May

Here’s my view on what might come up this May and how to approach your A2 revision. The first thing you…

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April 22, 2012 by

STEP 5: Listen to the examiner

Students following this blog will be aware that this is the fifth step of five steps to an A grade. I…

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April 11, 2012 by

STEP 4 Do a question analysis by theme

In this fourth step I analyse the nuances of a theme as revealed by the kind of questions the examiner asks….

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April 2, 2012 by

Do an exam question analysis

These five steps to securing an A grade are discussed in greater detail in my revision guides. These are now available…

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March 27, 2012 by

STEP 2 Scaffolding

Every moral theory has a starting point and an end point. The bones of the argument I am going to call…

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March 17, 2012 by

STEP 1: Five steps to A grades

These steps are outlined in greater detail in the AS and A2 revision guides (above). STEP 1: the DARM approach. DARM…

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March 14, 2012 by

Gay marriage?

Cardinal Keith O’Brien argued recently that gay marriage violated Article 16 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights which states: “men…

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