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Ethics
Weblinks and reading
Note: throughout the site further reading will be taken from these six books (in bold in the bibliography), so that the…
Read MoreWeblinks and reading
Note: throughout the site further reading will be taken from six books , so that the students can buy one or two additional…
Read MoreWeblinks and reading
Note: throughout the site further reading will be taken from a limited number of books (refer to the fuller bibliography for…
Read MoreExtract 6:Application – Natural Law and Nuremberg Trials
Debate Between Natural Law and Positive Law For a full text of this excellent article by Professor Swartz of Colorado University,…
Read MoreExtract 7: Literary application – Les Miserables and synderesis
In this extract from Book 4 chapter 1 of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Javert feels the strain of the true, innate…
Read MoreExtract 5: Synderesis and Aquinas
In Summa Theologica (I, Q79)Aquinas describes synderesis as a knowledge of first principles or an innate habit of thinking. It is…
Read MoreExtract 2: The ones who walk away from Omelas
The Ones that Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin Adapted from Louis Pojman's summary (2002) page 128. (The film…
Read MoreExtract 3: Kant’s enquiring murderer
Kant’s reasoning takes him to some very strange places, however – places where we might not wish to follow. For example,…
Read MoreEichmann’s trial invokes Kant
At his trial Eichmann is cross-examined about his statement that he’d tried to live all his life by Kant’s categorical imperative….
Read MoreBonhoeffer and Situationalism
Bonhoeffer’s Ethics On April 5th 1943 Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested for his part in opposing Adolf Hitler. His book on Ethics…
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Religious Studies Guides – 2020
