October 6, 2011 by

Activity: Problems with Aristotle – Community of Enquiry

Beginning a Community of Enquiry The community of enquiry is an excellent way to get your students to think about engaging…

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September 28, 2011 by

Handout: Aristotle’s Four Causes and Prime Mover

The Nature Of Stuff According To Aristotle Aristotle’s description of the four causes is relatively easy to understand but there are…

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September 28, 2011 by

Advanced Article: Peter Geach Good and Evil

Peter Geach argues that GE Moore confuses predicative adjectives “a brown horse” with attributive adjectives eg “a good philosopher” – where…

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September 28, 2011 by

Extract 2: G.E.Moore on the Naturalistic Fallacy

Moore is a non-naturalist cognitivist (it’s not just the non-cognitivists like Ayer and Hare who are non-naturalists as Jill Oliphant’s textbook…

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September 22, 2011 by

What is meant by “relativism”?

Relativism is the first topic on the OCR syllabus. Truth is, it’s one of the hardest to pin down.

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September 11, 2011 by

Handout: Aquinas’ Five Ways

Five Ways Aquinas’ Five Ways (Download) The first three of Aquinas’ five ways are cosmological in nature.  The cosmological argument is the…

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September 11, 2011 by

Lesson: Nietzsche and Morality (Handouts and Powerpoint)

Nietzsche And Morality Moral Opinion Poll (Download) Thinking About God And Morality (Download) The following lesson can be used as a one off…

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August 7, 2011 by

Essay: Moral Argument – Sample Part (B)

‘Kant’s moral argument cannot be defended.’ Discuss (10 marks). The claim that Kant’s moral argument cannot be defended is questionable. Freud…

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August 7, 2011 by

Essay: Moral Argument – Sample Part (B)

Explain Kant’s Moral Argument (25 marks) Kant’s moral argument focuses on the notion that God must exist to provide structure to…

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July 6, 2011 by

Article: (level 2): Ethics of euthanasia

Here is a very clear treatment of the ethical issues surrounding euthanasia. If you follow the links within the site you…

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