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Ethics
PREDESTINATION Calvin and Aquinas
Predestination and Calvin’s TULIP It's called Calvin's TULIP because the five main points of Calvin's doctrine of predestination spell the…
Read MoreArticle: Theological Determinism William Rowe
In this extract from Wiliam Rowe’s classic textbook (Wadsworth 2001) he explains the relationship between foreknowledge, predestination and human freedom. Here…
Read MoreArticle: Theological Determinism, Calvin and Catholic views
Here is an interesting article contrasting Catholic and Calvinist ideas of predestination. It's about time Theological Determinism came up in the…
Read MoreArticle: Free will and autonomy Victor Stenger
In this article Victor Stnger, a physicist, counters Sam Harris' claim that are wills are fully determined and so there can…
Read MoreExtract 7: Key terms in Sartre’s philosophy of freedom
SARTRE SUMMARY 1. EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE. "Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence." This means that what we do,…
Read MoreArticle: Morality -objective or cultural?
In this article by Jesse Prinz, an American academic, in the journal Philosophy Now, the issue of whether reltivism is true…
Read MoreArticle: BANK Everything you need
In this useful link Ted Honderish has brought togther every article you might need to investigate the free will debate from…
Read MoreAdvanced Article: Compatibilism PF Strawson Freedom and Resentment
Compatibilism as a view that freedom and determinism can be reconciled has a long history dating back to Thimas Hobbes (leviathan)…
Read MoreAdvanced Article:Hume’s compatibilism
In this brilliantly clear and well-argued article Paul Russell of the University of British Columbia considers the nature of Hume's compatibilism….
Read MoreExtract: Abortion And Embryo Research
Jonathan Glover explains the ethics of embryo research The impasse in the abortion debate partly results from all parties treating it…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
