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Ethics
Extract 8: The Buddhist meaning of happiness
The Buddhist idea of happiness is radically different from western views, which tend to equate happiness with development of self or…
Read MoreAS Past Questions: Ethics 2
Read MoreAS Past Questions: Ethics 1
Read MoreIssues: IVF and Stem cells
IVF Issues At what point should pre-embryos/embryos be considered to have human rights? Is "creating", discarding, freezing, or manipulating them morally…
Read MoreEXTRACT 2 Caritas in veritate Business ethics and RC Church
Extract: Caritas and veritate – business ethics and Christian approaches 45. Striving to meet the deepest moral needs of the person…
Read MoreExtract 9: Is truth relative? A Dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras
IS TRUTH RELATIVE? (A dialogue between Socrates and Protagoras) Protagoras: Truth is relative. It is only a matter of opinion. Socrates:…
Read MoreRoadmap Feelings
Treatise on Human Nature Book II Hume declares “reason is the slave of the passions”, meaning the only source of moral…
Read MoreExtract 1: RM Hare considers the principle of ends
Is Kantian ethics compatible with utilitarianism? Sorting Out Ethics R.M.Hare pages 153-5 RM Hare argues in this extract that much…
Read MoreExtract 5: Paul Ramsey on love and justice
Joseph Fletcher quotes Paul Ramsey's Basic Christian Ethics in a number of places, calling it " a brilliant exposition of the…
Read MoreExtract 4: The Grand Inquisitor
Joseph Fletcher mentions the Grand Inquisitor in his book Situation Ethics. "It is Ivan's story to Alyosha about the terrible burden…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
