OCR A level Religious Studies - Conscience Essay Plan

This is a comprehensive, critical essay plan, covering many aspects of Freud and Aquinas on conscience, along with evaluative pointers and critics to add weight to your argument. The detail in this plan provides a variety of approaches that can be taken when writing an essay regarding conscience. This essay is applicable to a general question on conscience as well as being able to be tailored to an essay focusing specifically on Freud/Aquinas/Conscience as an umbrella term/theological. The content in this document, if correct links are made, can be used to answer many essay Qs in the following topics, accessing level 5/6 bands for AO1 and AO2 when writing essays.

As conscience can be approached in multiple ways when writing an essay, there are 3 plans. A very broad plan, analysing Aquinas, Freud and Alternative religious/biological/sociological approaches to the conscience. Whilst, one essay plan, contrasts and compares the view critically of the conscience existing or either as an umbrella term. The last plan, focuses specifically around whether Freud’s psychological approach is the most helpful (2019 OCR exam Q).