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…
Read MoreExtract 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…
Read MoreExtract 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…
Read MoreComments 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…
Read MoreExtract 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)…
Read MoreCASE STUDIES Free Will
A2 Religious Ethics Freewill & Determinism Some Case Studies. Case Studies 1-3 all, in various ways, can be used to…
Read MoreHandout: 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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