RE at St Thomas More School

With thanks to rnjkings at YouTube.

Here is the A2 OCR Ethics Syllabus, with a few relevant links beneath each section. I’ll try and add more later to make this a particularly helpful post!

(a) Free will and determinism: the views of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ determinists and libertarians, and the implications of these views for moral responsibility; the way in which the religion studied contributes to debates about human free will and moral responsibility.

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Lecture Notes on Free Will and Determinism by Norman Swartz
Catholic Encyclopedia: Free Will
Catholic Encyclopedia: Predestination
RE Online: Free Will and Determinism Links

(b) The nature and role of the conscience: the views of Aquinas, Butler and Freud; other understandings of the conscience as innate, God-given or acquired, e.g. the views of Newman or Piaget.

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Nobel Peace Prize – people who followed their consciences
Amnesty International – Prisoners of Conscience
RE Online: Conscience Links

(c) Religious ethics, from the position of any one religion chosen by the Centre (Christianity):
• the nature of the ethics of the chosen religion: the main precepts, and the purpose of ethical behaviour; the extent to which the religious ethics can be considered deontological or teleological;
• the contribution made by the religion to the practical ethics issues specified in both Religious Ethics 1 and Religious Ethics 2 (medical ethics, environmental ethics, sex and relationships, and war, peace and justice).

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Religion and Ethics: Video of a lecture by Lawrence M. Hinman

(d) Practical ethics: ethical theory (Natural Law, virtue ethics, relativist views, Kant, various forms of Utilitarianism) and religious ethics as applied to:
• Environmental ethics;

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BBC Bloom: How to be more environmentally friendly
BBC: Animal Rights
Conversation with Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics
The Ethical Legacy of Aldo Leopold: video interview with J. Baird Callicott
What Chief Seattle really said
The Dalai Lama: An Ethical Approach to Environmental Protection
Arctic Ozone Hole Appears
Kofi Annan’s Astonishing Facts
The Chernobyl Children’s Project
Chernobyl Children Lifeline
Peter Singer
Environmental News Network
Kyoto Protocol: Friends of the Earth Briefing
RE Online: Animal Rights links

• Sex and relationships;

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BBC Ethics: Contraception
BBC Ethics: Same Sex Marriage
Imagine: Imagine … A Love Story – on BBC iPlayer – What makes a great love story?
Religious Tolerance website: Human sexuality and gender topics

* War, peace and justice.

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BBC: Ethics of War
War, Propaganda and the Media
Deontological Pacifism and Consequentialist Pacifism
Just War Theory
Genocide Watch
War on Want: Fighting Global Poverty

Complete syllabus help, and Philosophy links

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Science and Religion: Darwin at the Natural History Museum
Challenges to Religious Belief: The man who sued God
BBC Ethics
Ethical Man: A Year of Living Ethically
BBC Podcast: Everyday Ethics
BBC: Introduction to Ethics
Dictionary of Philosophy
Episteme Links: For Philosophy Resources on the Internet
Philosophy Talk: Past shows
Religion, Philosophy and Ethics course at Gloucester Uni – Blog
Philosophy Fun and Humour
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Heinemann Hotlinks
Mr B’s Revision Guide: Woodford County High School for Girls’ A Level Course
Woodford County High School: A Level Powerpoint Presentations
RE Online: Religious Ethics Core Texts
RE Online: A Level Religious Themes and Topics