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.
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