Various course notes/resources for the Edexcel A Level Religious Studies syllabus (may also help with OCR and AQA courses).
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 […]
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
NOTE : THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE COURSE NOTES FOR SITUATION ETHICS THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE AND HERE. COMMENTS ON THE ANTHOLOGY EXTRACT FROM WILLIAM BARCLAY’S ETHICS IN A PERMISSIVE SOCIETY CAN BE FOUND HERE. THIS TEST (AND MANY OF THE OTHERS ON THIS SITE) SHOULD ALSO BE OF USE TO STUDENTS FOLLOWING OTHER ADVANCED
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NOTE: Copyright issues may come into play at this point. So what you will find below are brief quotations from the extract followed by comments on them. The full extract can be found HERE. See also HERE and HERE for course notes on Situation Ethics. This is another example of a curious and questionable choice of
The exam board may want you show how SE works in practice. So this handout lists some of the specific examples mentioned by Fletcher in Situation Ethics: The New Morality, together with some advice as to how they might be used in your examination answers. Each example is accompanied by a mention of the relevant
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Edexcel course notes on Natural Moral Law theory.
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Exemplar answers to various Paper 2 questions
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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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