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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NOTE : THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE COURSE NOTES FOR KANT/KANTIAN ETHICS THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE, HERE, HERE AND HERE. COMMENTS ON THE ANTHOLOGY EXTRACT FROM KANT’S GROUNDWORK FOR THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS CAN BE FOUND BY FOLLOWING THAT LAST LINK. THE EDEXCEL SYLLABUS ALSO REQUIRES A COMPARISON TO BE MADE WITH ARISTOTELIAN VIRTUE
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NOTE : THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE COURSE NOTES FOR VIRTUE ETHICS THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE. BUT SEE ALSO HERE FOR COMMENTS ON THE ANTHOLOGY EXTRACT FROM ARISTOTLE’S NICOMACHEAN ETHICS AND A COMPARISON WITH KANT (WHICH ARE ALSO INCLUDED IN THE EDEXCEL ETHICS SYLLABUS. THIS TEST (AND MANY OF THE OTHERS ON THIS SITE) SHOULD ALSO
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NOTE : THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE COURSE NOTES FOR RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE. SEE ALSO HERE, AND HERE. THIS TEST (AND MANY OF THE OTHERS ON THIS SITE) SHOULD ALSO BE OF USE TO STUDENTS FOLLOWING OTHER ADVANCED LEVEL RELIGIOUS STUDIES COURSES. BEAR IN MIND THAT THESE TESTS ARE MEANT TO BE DIFFICULT.
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NOTE : THESE QUESTIONS ARE BASED ON THE COURSE NOTES ON UTILITARIANISM THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE. THIS TEST (AND MANY OF THE OTHERS ON THIS SITE) SHOULD ALSO BE OF USE TO STUDENTS FOLLOWING OTHER ADVANCED LEVEL RELIGIOUS STUDIES COURSES. BEAR IN MIND THAT THEY ARE MEANT TO BE DIFFICULT. FOR THIS REASON THEY
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NOTE: These course notes cover aspects of all the current A Level specifications offered by OCR, AQA, Eduqas and Edexcel. However, they are not comprehensive. See also the separate post on William James and mystical experience which is more detailed and up to date than the treatment he gets here. For ease of revision, these
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Extract from the Edexcel specification: 2.1 The nature of religious experience a) Context of religious experience across religious traditions, range of definitions related to belief in God and/or ultimate reality, theistic and monistic views, ineffability, noetic, transience, passivity. b) Types: conversion, prayer, meditation, mysticism, numinous. Relationship between religious experience and propositional and non-propositional
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From the syllabus: 2.1 The nature of religious experience a) Context of religious experience across religious traditions, range of definitions related to belief in God and/or ultimate reality, theistic and monistic views, ineffability, noetic, transience, passivity. b) Types: conversion, prayer, meditation, mysticism, numinous. Relationship between religious experience and propositional and non-propositional revelation.
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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