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Extract 1: Spartan culture
Ronald Stark Sociology of Religion Spartan culture valued strength and courage above other virtues, so it was natural to them to…
Read MoreExtract 3: Daniel Jacobson’s multilevel defence of utilitarianism
Daniel Jacobson defines the multilevel approach like this: Multilevel theories distinguish between an intuitive and a critical level of moral thinking….
Read MoreExtract 4: The Happy Warrior – Wordsworth
Wordsworth's The Happy Warrior as an alternative concept of happiness. Martha Nussbaum argues that Wordsworth's The Character of the Happy Warrior…
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 MoreExtract 3: Right to a child: cost (NHS guidelines)
Right to a child: IVF and other treatments Here are the NHS guidelines on who has the right to fertility treatment…
Read MoreExtract 2: Keir Starmer’s 2010 guidelines
Starmer guidelines on assisted suicide February 2010 Keir Starmer (Director of Public Prosecutions) published the policy after taking account of 5,000…
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