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Ethics
Extract 3: Lawrence of Arabia
This extract recounts Lawrence’s experience during the Arab revolt against Turkish occupation in Palestine in 1916. Lawrence had been sent to…
Read MoreExtract 2: The Ik tribe
Anthropologist Colin Turnbull (1972/1995) studied the Ik, a formerly proud nomadic people in northern Uganda whose traditional hunting lands were taken…
Read MoreExtract 4: van Inwagen Incompatibility of Free will and determinism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec24.pdf Peter van Inwagen, “The Incompatibility of Free Will and Determinism” PvI’s “main argument”: (note: he is an incompatibilist who maintains that…
Read MoreExtract 6: Singer and Act Utilitarianism
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/linguistics-and-philosophy/24-231-ethics-fall-2009/lecture-notes/MIT24_231F09_lec16.pdf
Read MoreApplying Christian Ethics
Religious Ethics – Christian Ethics Questions will ask students to apply religious ethics to practical moral problems. In practice this means…
Read MoreApplying Natural Law
Natural Law – “right reason in agreement with nature” In the OCR specification, natural law and situation ethics are applied to…
Read MoreApplying Relativism
Applying relativism – relativists believe values come from socially approved habits or forms of life Relativism can be either a descriptive…
Read MoreApplying Bentham and Mill
Hedonistic utilitarianism – calculating consequences by measurable pleasure Note: the acronym PRRICED can be used to remember the seven criteria of…
Read MoreExtract 4: Article-thirty years of IVF
The daily telegraph reviews the story of IVF treatments which began on July 25th 1978 with the birth of Louise Brown,…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
