February 25, 2012 by

Past Questions: Environmental ethics

June 2009 Q4 "Relativist ethics are the best approach to the environment". Discuss (35) Jan 2010 G582 Q2 "Utilitarianism is not…

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February 4, 2012 by

Extract 8: The story of the Land

Our understanding of Earth, and our place in it, underlies and explains much of what we do in everyday life. Practical…

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January 31, 2012 by

Extract 7: Land Ethic of Aldo Leopold

Source: http://www.aldoleopold.org/about/LandEthic.pdf For an excellent article reviewing Aldo Leopold’s contribution to environmental ethics go to: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aldo_Leopold’s_Land_Ethic “All ethics so far evolved…

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December 9, 2011 by

Comments on Dawkins view of conscience – the atheistic conscience

Richard Dawkins provides us with a fascinating analysis of the origins of conscience which shares some of the features of theological…

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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 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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October 14, 2011 by

Handout: Extracts from After Virtue

I am grateful to Stephen Loxton of Sherborne School for Girls for this summary of key points from After Virtue. A…

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September 28, 2011 by

Advanced Article: Peter Geach Good and Evil

Peter Geach argues that GE Moore confuses predicative adjectives “a brown horse” with attributive adjectives eg “a good philosopher” – where…

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September 28, 2011 by

Extract 2: G.E.Moore on the Naturalistic Fallacy

Moore is a non-naturalist cognitivist (it’s not just the non-cognitivists like Ayer and Hare who are non-naturalists as Jill Oliphant’s textbook…

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