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Ethics
EXAMINERS REPORT AS Jan 2012
General Comments There were a number of good, very good and excellent responses from candidates. The candidates were well prepared and…
Read MoreArticle: Hume’s compatibilism
For a very full and detailed discussion of the nature of Hume's compatibilism click here. For an excellent discussion between a…
Read MoreLouis Pojman destroys relativism
Louis Pojman: Against Relativism and For Objectivism source: http://www2.drury.edu/cpanza/relativism.pdf I. Philosophical arguments aspire to the form of deductive validity. This means that…
Read More3.3 Simon Blackburn on the issues arising
EXTRACT ABORTION and PERSONHOOD Simon Blackburn page 54 A good first philosophical question to ask might be whether this black and…
Read MoreSummary: After Virtue
For a summary of MacIntyre’s entire book (1981, After Virtue) – which you can skim in a few minutes, go to:…
Read MoreADVANCED BOOK: Aristotle’s metaphysical bioiogy
In Tradition in the ethics of Aristotle and MacIntyre Christopher Luz explains what is menat by Arostotle’s metaphysical biology, and how…
Read MoreArticle: Roger Scruton Kant on Just War and Iraq
Immanuel Kant wrote Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch in 1787. In this essay he argues for a League of Nations committed…
Read MorePETER SINGER on euthanasia
Peter Singer on Voluntary Euthanasia Source: http://web.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/phil%20115/Singer_on_Euthanasia.htm Background information: Utilitarians and Rights Most utilitarians deny the existence of absolute natural rights….
Read MoreArticle 1: Michael Tooley on abortion and infanticide
Michael Tooley's justification of abortion rests upon a. a particular view of rights and b. a definition of personhood. Tooley argues…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
