Paul Whicker

Additional Course Notes on Realism and Pacifism for students of the Edexcel syllabus

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From the syllabus: b) Concepts of pacifism, including absolute, relative/selective and nuclear pacifism, the role of pacifist movements and pressure groups.  NOTE: this handout does not deal with all aspects of the above but should be helpful. Additionally, there is information on the realist/realpolitik perspective which provides another contrast with Just War theory. Both pacifism […]

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Course Notes on ethical issues to do with Nuclear Weapons for students of the Edexcel syllabus

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From the syllabus.  a) The contribution of at least one religion to issues of war and peace, including the teaching of sacred text(s), the Just War Theory, including principles jus ad bellum, jus in bello and jus post bellum, reasons for and influences on the development of the theory, examples of wars, including contemporary conflicts

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Detailed Course Notes on War and Peace for students of the Edexcel syllabus

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From the syllabus.  a) The contribution of at least one religion to issues of war and peace, including the teaching of sacred text(s), the Just War Theory, including principles jus ad bellum, jus in bello and jus post bellum, reasons for and influences on the development of the theory, examples of wars, including contemporary conflicts

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Course Notes for Edexcel students – Brian Orend on Just War Theory

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From the syllabus.  a) The contribution of at least one religion to issues of war and peace, including the teaching of sacred text(s), the Just War Theory, including principles jus ad bellum, jus in bello and jus post bellum, reasons for and influences on the development of the theory, examples of wars, including contemporary conflicts

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Course Notes on Sexual Ethics for Edexcel students Part 3 – A Summary

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From the Edexcel Syllabus 3.2 Sexual Ethics  a) The contribution of at least one world religion on issues in sexual ethics, including the teaching of sacred text(s) and understanding of the diversity of religious approaches, sexual relationships in and outside of marriage, including pre-marital sex, adultery, promiscuity, same-sex relationships, including marriage and civil partnership, contraception

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Course Notes on Sexual Ethics for Edexcel students – Augustine on lust

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The seven deadly sins are vices that are condemned in Christian teaching, although they do not appear explicitly in the Bible. According to the standard list, they are pride, greed, envy, gluttony, wrath, sloth and lust. Obviously when it comes to sexual ethics, lust tends to get proscribed because it can lead to other sins getting committed e.g. adultery.

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Course Notes for Edexcel students : Introduction to Sexual Ethics

Kant, Kantian Ethics, Natural Moral Law, Paper 2 Religion and Ethics, Sexual Ethics, Utilitarianism, Virtue Ethics /

This introduction should help you to get clearer about your own views about sexual morality in terms of which actions you think are morally right and which are morally wrong. So it’s about finding out where our own boundaries are. Interestingly, a couple of philosophers who have contributed a lot to the debate about sexual

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Anthology Extract Commentary : Edexcel Paper 2 Extract 4 – Medical Ethics

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Taken from: Issues of Life and Death by Michael Wilcockson (Hodder, 1999), Chapter 4, Euthanasia and Doctors’ Ethics, pp.56–69. NOTE: Copyright issues may come into play at this point. So what you will find below are the FIRST and LAST couple of sentences of the section that is commented on followed by the commentary itself

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Course notes for Edexcel students on Moral Luck/Thomas Nagel

Anthology Extract, Kant, Kantian Ethics, Paper 2 Religion and Ethics /

From the Edexcel syllabus for Paper 2: A comparison of the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle with regard to Deontology and Virtue Ethics respectively. (2) Kant I – Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, Text, second section, pp. 29–53 (Yale University Press, 2002) ISBN 9780300094879 With reference to the ideas of W D Ross

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Anthology Extract Commentary : Edexcel Paper 2 Extract 3: Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics, Book II, (350 BCE)

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NOTE: This commentary (combined with the one on Kant) also covers the following aspect of the Edexcel syllabus: A comparison of the work of Immanuel Kant and Aristotle with regard to Deontology and Virtue Ethics respectively. NOTE: Copyright issues may come into play at this point. So what you will find below are the FIRST

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