Resources for AQA A Level Religious Studies (Philosophy) - both Year 12 and Year 13 content for Component 1. Assemblies/PSHCE/General RE content from KS3 through to Sixth Form.
Also content for Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (Route B) and Judaism.
Resources for AQA A Level Religious Studies (Philosophy) - both Year 12 and Year 13 content for Component 1. Assemblies/PSHCE/General RE content from KS3 through to Sixth Form.
Also content for Eduqas GCSE Religious Studies (Route B) and Judaism.
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section - Cartesian Dualism
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Cartesian Dualism is
To begin to look at the strengths and weaknesses of Descartes Arguments
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Descartes X2
Workshet
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Price argues about existence after death
To understand what Swinburne argues about existence after death
To begin to understand what Plato argues about existence after death
Strengths and Weaknesses of each argument
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on swinburne
Notes on Price
Notes on Plato
Worksheet
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what kind of personal existence after death there could be
To understand Hick’s replica theory
To understand the strengths and weaknesses of Hick’s theory
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on Hick
Worksheet
Self, Death and the afterlife section
AQA Religious Studies A-Level
Philosophy section
Main aims of this lesson are:
To understand what Reincarnation is
To understand what a near death experience is
To know the strengths and weaknesses of both
Contains:
Highly detailed PowerPoint
Notes on reincarnation
Notes on Near Death Experiences
Learning Journeys for the Philosophy sections of AQA A-Level Religious Studies
Topics Covered:
The Design Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Ontological Argument
Good and Evil
Religious Experience
Religious Language
Miracles
Self, Death and the Afterlife
Each Learning Journey Contains:
The Journey of lessons
Example AO1 and AO2 questions
Key Concepts and their meanings as detailed in the Hodder textbook
List of named scholars for that section
The Cosmological Argument
A number of resources to cover the Cosmological Argument. Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
The Four Causes
The Cosmological Argument
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument with focus on Hume and Russell
The Ontological Argument
A number of resources to cover the Ontological Argument. Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to the Ontological Argument
Anselm’s Ontological Argument with reference to Proslogian 1 and 2
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ontological Argument with focus on Gaunilo and Kant
Extra content focussed on Plantinga, Frege and Russell
The Design Argument
A number of resources to cover the Design Argument. Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Philosophical Proofs
Paley’s Design Argument
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Design Argument with focus on Hume
Extra content focussed on Swinburne and Tennant
Eduqas Religious Studies GCSE Chilli Challenge Sheets for all 5 modules on the Route B Course.
Each Sheet contains:
12 Revision Ideas
Practice Questions for B, C and D Questions
Knowledge Organisers for the Philosophy content
A level Religious Studies
AQA but could also be used for other exam boards
26 PPT slides which span across the entirity of the Philosophy Content for AQA Religious Studies Philsophy section.
These can be printed off, emailed or blown up to A3.
‘A Brief Overview of Everything’ For the Philosophy Section of the A-Level AQA Religious Studies Course.
This PPT does what it says on the tin. In 116 slides it covers the full 2 year Philosophy content for the AQA Religious Studies Course.
My students asked for ‘a brief overview of everything’ and so this was made.
It is just slides of information - as condensed as possible. Is an excellent revision tool.
Revision Tool
PPT
Colour Coded strengths and Weaknesses
Miracles Module
A number of resources to cover Miracles created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Miracles
Realist understanding of Miracles
Anti-Realist understanding of Miracles
Miracles as understood by Hume
Miracles as understood by Wiles
Hume V Wiles
Challenges to Hume and Wiles
Recap lesson
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire Miracles module
Religious Experience Module
A number of resources to cover Religious Experience created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Religious Experience
Types of Visions (Corporeal, Imaginative and Intellectual)
Numinous experiences as presented by Otto
Mystical Experience as presented by James
Experiences as presented by Stace
The Principles of Credulity and Testimony as presented by Swinburne
Challenges to Religious Experience from Science and Psychology
Responses to these challenges
The influence of Religious Experience on the experiencer
Belief ‘in’ VS Belief ‘that’ as presented by H.H Price
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire Religious Experience module
The Problem of Evil and Suffering
A number of resources to cover the Problem of Evil. Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to the Problem (Natural and Moral Evil)
The Logical Problem - Inconsistent Triad with reference to Hume, Epicuris and Mackie
The Evidential Problem of Evil - with reference to quality and quantity (Brothers Karamazov) and pointless evil (Rowe’s Fawn)
The Free Will Defence - with reference to Mackie, Swinburne and Plantinga’s defences.
The Augustinian Theodicy
The Irenaean Theodicy
Hick’s Soul-Making Theodicy
Process Theodicy
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire Problem of Evil module
A number of resources to cover the Arguments for the existence of God (Cosmological, Ontological and Design Arguments). Created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Design Argument
-Introduction to Philosophical Proofs
-Paley’s Design Argument
-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Design Argument with focus on Hume
-Extra content focussed on Swinburne and Tennant
Cosmological Argument
-The Four Causes
-The Cosmological Argument
-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument with focus on Hume and Russell
Ontological Argument
-Introduction to the Ontological Argument
-Anselm’s Ontological Argument with reference to Proslogian 1 and 2
-Strengths and Weaknesses of the Ontological Argument with focus on Gaunilo and Kant
-Extra content focussed on Plantinga, Frege and Russell
Religious Langauge Module
A number of resources to cover Religious Language created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to Religious Language
Language as analogy
Language as a blik
Language as cognitive or non-cognitive
Language as symbolic
The Falsification Principle
The Verification Principle
Hick’s eschatalogical verification
Wittgensteins language games
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire religious language module
Self, Death and the Afterlife Philosophy Module
A number of resources to cover self, death and the afterlife created for A-Level AQA.
Could be used for other A-Level exam boards or GCSE.
Contains:
Introduction to self, death and the afterlife
Psychological continuity + Dennett
Reincarnation
Near Death Experiences
Existence after death : Price, Swinburne and Plato
Hicks Replica Theory
The bundle theory
Personal Identity as physical
Dual aspect monism
Interactionalism, Physicalism and Functionalism
Cartesian Dualism
Gilbert Ryle
Aristotle and the Soul
Dualism and Plato
The strengths and weaknesses of all thee above
revision sheets
Each lesson contains a powerpoint, notes and activites for the entire religious language module