Comprehensive Notes for Philosophy, Ethics, and Buddhism OCR

These notes cover the entire OCR Religious Studies syllabus; summarizing the ‘My Revision Notes’ OCR textbook. These notes contributed to the achievement of an A* at A level.

Ethics is divided into:

• Natural Law
• Situation Ethics
• Utilitarianism
• Kantian Ethics
• Euthanasia
• Business Ethics
• Sexual Ethics
• Conscience
• Meta Ethics

Philosophy is divided into

• Plato and Aristotle
• Body and Soul
• The Teleological Argument
• The Cosmological Argument
• The Ontological Argument
• Religious Experience
• The Problem of Evil
• Attributes of God
• Religious Language
• 20th Century Perspectives

**Buddhism is divided into **

• The Buddha’s life
• Intellectual Context
• The Three Refuges
• The Three Marks of Existence
• The Four Noble Truths
• Meditation
• Mahayana Buddhism
• Madhyamika and Prajnaparamita
• Zen Buddhism
• Pure Land Buddhism
• Engaged Buddhism
• Western Buddhism
• Female Enlightenment
• Women in the monastic Sangha