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Extract 6:Application – Natural Law and Nuremberg Trials
Debate Between Natural Law and Positive Law For a full text of this excellent article by Professor Swartz of Colorado University,…
Read MoreExtract 7: Literary application – Les Miserables and synderesis
In this extract from Book 4 chapter 1 of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Javert feels the strain of the true, innate…
Read MoreExtract 5: Synderesis and Aquinas
In Summa Theologica (I, Q79)Aquinas describes synderesis as a knowledge of first principles or an innate habit of thinking. It is…
Read MoreExtract 2: The ones who walk away from Omelas
The Ones that Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin Adapted from Louis Pojman's summary (2002) page 128. (The film…
Read MoreExtract 3: Kant’s enquiring murderer
Kant’s reasoning takes him to some very strange places, however – places where we might not wish to follow. For example,…
Read MoreEichmann’s trial invokes Kant
At his trial Eichmann is cross-examined about his statement that he’d tried to live all his life by Kant’s categorical imperative….
Read MoreBonhoeffer and Situationalism
Bonhoeffer’s Ethics On April 5th 1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested for his part in opposing Adolf Hitler. His book on Ethics…
Read MoreCASE STUDY: Surrogacy and Baby M
CASE STUDY: Surrogacy and The Case of Baby M. (1987) For a copy of the judgement go to: http://www.justiceharvard.org/?option=com_content&view=article&id=94&catid=21:episode-one&Itemid=7 You can…
Read MoreExtract 3: Right to a child: cost (NHS guidelines)
Right to a child: IVF and other treatments Here are the NHS guidelines on who has the right to fertility treatment…
Read MorePRESCRIPTIVISM – Hare
Click on the link below for twenty-one questions on Hare’s prescriptivism: http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/gensler/ms/hare–01.htm
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
