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Ethics
Start Here: Natural Law and the website
Start here: Natural Law Theory In its classical Greek form, Natural Law is the opposite of moral relativism – the view…
Read MoreExtract Thoreau on conscience
Extract: Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 62) On the Duty of Civil Disobedience The practical reason why a majority is…
Read MoreExtract 2: Bernard Williams on Kant
Williams on Kant – a discussion by Martha Nusbaum Boston Review Oct/Nov 2003 Kantianism, as Williams understood it, was a theory…
Read MoreExtract Aquinas on conscience
Aquinas on conscience (ST I, 79) Synderesis is a characteristic disposition rather than a power….as nature needs to implant in us…
Read MoreExtract Freud on conscience
Freud’s Theory of the Unconscious From The Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy Freud’s theory of the unconscious, then, is highly deterministic,…
Read MoreHandout: Three theories of conscience
Questioning Conscience A study of conscience crosses over between psychology and philosophy, because it raises questions about the origins and purpose…
Read MoreHandout: Free will and Determinism
Free Will and Determinism Issues surrounding free will and determinism often seem like spaghetti: they twist and turn in the mind…
Read MoreExtract 4: Roman Catholic Catechism and Natural Law (short version)
Roman Catholic Catechism and Natural Law (paragraph numbers) 1. Natural Law shows man the way to follow so as to practise…
Read MoreHandout: Introduction to Moral Relativism
The Nature of Moral Theory Moral theory asks the questions: what is meant by “good”, what makes a “good action” or…
Read MoreHandout: Kantian Ethics – PMB introduction
Introduction This handout is a summary of a more detailed treatment in my book Kant and Natural Law, which contains longer…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
