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Extract 7: Mill on the importance of character
Mill was deeply influenced by Aristotle. It could be argued that Mill’s definition of happiness, which embraces goals, expectations and activity,…
Read MoreFilm: INDEX
Valkyrie, Indecent Proposal, Rendition, Lord of the Flies – any more suggestions, will add scene details and background soon. PB
Read MoreIssues: Environmental Ethics
This useful list of issues is taken from http://gadfly.igc.org/e-ethics/Intro-ee.htm.there is also a link to a postdoctoral dissertation examining John Rawls’ theory…
Read MoreExtract 5: Caritas in Veritate (Love and Truth) 2009
The Roman Catholic Church has generally taken an anthropocentric (man-centred) view of environmental issues – arguing it is important as an…
Read MoreAdvanced Article: Aristotle v MacIntyre
MacIntyre’s Virtue Ethics was first expressed in his book After Virtue which sought to rehabilitate Aristotelean Virtue Theory in the light…
Read MoreArticle: 3 Is it impossible to apply the virtues?
In this short extract from the Stanford Encyclopaedia a leading modern virtue theorist, Rosalind Hursthouse, considers the criticism (mentioned by Louis…
Read MoreArticle: Embryonic stem cells
This extract from the independent discusses a recent ruling that patents on embryonic stem cell research are immoral and illegal. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ruling-on-stemcell-patents-may-spell-end-of-research-in-europe-2275771.html…
Read MoreArticle: Norman Anderson – A Christian Response to Situationism
http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/vox/vol09/ethics_anderson.pdf
Read MoreArticle: – Norman Anderson on Situationism
This extract is taken from Professor Norman Andersen’s critique of situational ethics in 9 Ethics in a Permissive Society (Fontana, London,…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
