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Ethics
Foundation Extract: Kant in his own words – Duty
Commentary on the preface to the Metaphysics of Morals – Tristan Stone PREFACE “Everyone must admit that a law, if it…
Read MoreAdvanced Article: Aquinas’ version of Natural Law
Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of Natural Law source 3.1 Basic image to explain Natural Law By way of beginning I shall use…
Read MoreExtract 6: Virtue and the Idea of Character
source A Disposition, with Respect to Actions and Feelings, Issuing in Decisions Rather than provide a definition of character or of…
Read MoreA Just War?
Just War? Archbishop Justin Welby argued that Syrian airstrikes fulfil Just War criteria. I beg to disagree; yet the problem may…
Read MoreStart Here: Free Will and Determinism
OCR students please note – free will has dropped off the new OCR spec but remains on some of the other…
Read MoreRoadmap: Free Will and Determinism
The structure of ideas is given here: click on a hyperlinked box to navigate through the site and identify the areas you need to understand.
Read MoreArticle: Libertarianism as Indeterminism
source The Indeterminist Argument Against Soft Determinism The libertarian definition of freedom Genuine freedom is contextual (always freedom with respect to…
Read MoreExtract 10: Daniel Dennett
source Daniel Dennett (1942-) While he himself is a confirmed compatibilist, even a determinist, in “On Giving Libertarians What They Say They…
Read MoreSummary: Locke’s Compatibilism
I. Locke’s idea of active powers 1. Active power is the power to “make a change.” Example: fire has a power…
Read MoreAdvanced Article: Locke’s Compatibilism
source Locke’s Compatibilism: Suspension of desire or Suspension of Determinism?[1] In Book II, chapter xxi of the Essay Concerning Human Understanding,…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
