Course Notes for Edexcel students on Kant/Kantian Ethics
Edexcel Course Notes on Kant/Kantian Ethics
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Course Notes for Edexcel students on Virtue Ethics
From the Edexcel specification: Aristotelian virtue ethics – historical and cultural influences on Virtue Ethics from its beginnings to modern developments of the theory, concepts of eudaemonia and living well, the golden mean, development of virtuous character, virtuous role models, vices, contemporary applications of virtue theories. Virtue ethics is the theory that the foundation of
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Secularization Part 2 : The debate/Christianity and Secularization
What your Christianity syllabus says… 4.2 Secularisation (2) As you have previously learned, the term ‘secularization’ (which can be spelt with a ‘z’ or an ‘s’) is used to refer to a process in which religion/religious belief in a society gradually declines and then eventually dies out. Is there evidence to support this theory? Is
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Secularization Part 1: The New Atheism
Possible examination question: Explore the arguments of modern atheists, including Richard Dawkins and evaluate the impact of these views and the responses to them. These notes can be used for section 4.2 of your Christianity syllabus (on secularization) and 5.1(b) of your Philosophy syllabus (alternative explanations for religious beliefs). Introduction The term ‘secularization’ refers to
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A Level Religious Studies: various exemplar answers to Edexcel Paper 2 questions
Exemplar answers to various Paper 2 questions
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PHILRSBLOG GOES TO THE MOVIES: Blade Runner 2049 and Liberation Theology
SPOILER ALERT: before getting down to business, if you are reading this and haven’t seen one or both of the two Blade Runner movies, this discussion may not be for you right now, as it is simply inevitable that major plot details that you might not care to know about in advance are going to
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Course notes for Edexcel students on Liberation Theology (and Black/Feminist Theology)
New movements in theology The context and key themes of Liberation theology, Feminist theology and Black theology. The development of these ideas and their impact on the lives of believers and communities in Christianity today.
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Situation Ethics Course Notes for Edexcel students
Situation Ethics is a controversial and liberal ethical theory that was most fully developed in the writing of an American Christian priest called Joseph Fletcher in the 1960’s in his book Situation Ethics – The New Morality.
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Some unusual facts about Jeremy Bentham
Biographical details are almost always going to be irrelevant to your examination answers. So don’t mention any of this, but I thought that the following details were quite amusing.
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