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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 MoreStart Here: Relativism
Relativism is normally encountered early in the course, in order to contrast it with absolutism. This is not without its problems!…
Read MoreWeblinks 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…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
