May 2022

Extension Material: 1. Just War Theory and the Ukraine-Russia Conflict. 2. Noam Chomsky on the morality of war and Ukraine.

Extension Material, Just War Theory, Kantian Ethics, Natural Moral Law, Paper 2 Religion and Ethics, Sexual Ethics, Situation Ethics, Utilitarianism /

Just War Theory and the Ukraine-Russia War Before getting to the philosopher Noam Chomsky’s thoughts about the Ukraine-Russia conflict, it is worth looking at it from the perspective of Just War Theory, as the Edexcel syllabus mentions that contemporary conflicts ‘may be evaluated against this theory.’ The principles that inform Just War Theory have previously […]

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Situation Ethics in practice – an overview of the content of Joseph Fletcher’s less well-known book.

Kant, Medical Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Natural Moral Law, Paper 2 Religion and Ethics, Religious Language, Sexual Ethics, Situation Ethics /

This aim of this post is to provide an additional resource for both teachers and students who are studying or revising Situation Ethics and, in particular, the topic of sexual ethics (as four chapters of the above publication are devoted to aspects of it). Additionally, Fletcher discusses the Is-Ought gap, Natural Law, euthanasia, the nature

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