December 9, 2011 by

Revision Guide available now

It’s the AS retake season again. Don’t worry help is at hand as a Revision Guide is available as a book (hard…

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December 3, 2011 by

Article: Evaluating Pacifism – Brian Orend

In this extract from Brian Orend’s book The Morality of War (Chapter 9) the author considers the arguments for Pacifism.  the…

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November 29, 2011 by

Advanced Article:Prescriptivism, Philippa Foot and Richard Hare

In this interactive article Dr Stephen Loxton discusses Philippa Foot’s criticisms of Hare’s prescriptivism.  Foot was an ethical naturalist who in…

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November 29, 2011 by

Advanced Article: Business ethics and the environment (Schumacher)

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November 17, 2011 by

Past Questions: Abortion

Jan 2010 (new spec) a) Explain how the ethics of a religion you have studied might be aplplied to abortion. (25)…

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November 16, 2011 by

Extract 2: Locke’s analogy of the locked room

EXTRACT Locke Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter XXI, Of Power Locke believes only the person is free (the agent)…

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November 16, 2011 by

CASE STUDIES Free Will

A2 Religious Ethics Freewill & Determinism Some Case Studies.   Case Studies 1-3 all, in various ways, can be used to…

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November 6, 2011 by

In praise of virtue

“It is no longer profitable to do moral philosophy”. So wrote Elisabeth Anscombe in 1958.

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November 2, 2011 by

Handout: Prime Mover vs. God of the Bible

Is Aristotle’s Prime Mover Transcendent or Immanent? The question of whether Aristotle’s prime mover is transcendent or immanent is an interesting…

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November 2, 2011 by

Handout: David Hume’s Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument

How does Hume criticise The Cosmological Argument? The handout below was written out of frustration. I have been frustrated at the…

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