This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: Soul, Mind and Body, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Plato’s Soul
Aristotle’s Soul
Descartes
Arguing for Dualism
Dawkins
Ryle
Susan Blackmore
Arguing against the Soul
Property Dualism
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion: Ancient Philosophical Influences, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Plato’s Reality
Plato’s Forms and Form of the Good
Assessing Plato
Aristotle’s Reality
Prime Mover
Assessing Aristotle
Comparing Plato and Aristotle
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These engaging and colourful learning mats are indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Each learning mat is downloaded as an A3 Word document and an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Topics include:
Natural Law
Utilitarianism
Situation Ethics
Kantian Ethics
Euthanasia
Business Ethics
Meta-Ethical Theories
Conscience
Sexual Ethics
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Sexual Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Premarital and Extramarital Sex
Homosexuality
Natural Law
Situation Ethics
Utilitarianism
Kantian Ethics
Do religious views still have a role in modern sexual ethics?
Is sexual behaviour private?
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Conscience, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Aquinas
Freud
J.H. Newman
Evaluation of theories
Guilt
Fromm
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Meta-Ethical Theories, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Ethical naturalism
Intuitionism
Emotivism
Ethical terms as objective and meaningful
Ethical terms as subjective or meaningless
‘What is good’?
Prescriptivism and error theory
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This is a revision sheet indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Business Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Corporate Social Responsibility
Whistleblowing
Globalisation and Business
Utilitarianism and Business
Kantian Ethics and Business
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Euthanasia, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Document can be downloaded as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Sanctity of life
Quality of life
Autonomy
Acts and omissions
Natural Law on euthanasia
Situation ethics on euthanasia
Analysis
Exam questions (35 marks) and exam technique
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Utilitarianism, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. A3 Word document and A4 PDF included, for campatibility.
Resource Includes:
Bentham (utility)
Hedonic calculus
Mill’s utilitarianism
Act and rule utilitarianism
Analysing utilitarianism
Peter Singer (preference utilitarianism)
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Utilitarianism, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. It is a 26 page document (PDF also included) to support your learners.
These workbooks are ideal for independent study or set as topic-specific homework/revision.
Resource Includes:
Bentham (utility)
Hedonic calculus
Mill’s utilitarianism
Act and rule utilitarianism
Analysing utilitarianism
Peter Singer (preference utilitarianism)
*Exam questions (35 marks) and exam technique
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Kantian Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as an A3 Word document and as an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Kant and duty
Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives
Kant’s three formulas
Application of Kantian Ethics
Assessing the idea of duty
Analysing Kantian ethics
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a workbook indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Kantian Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. It is a 26 page document (PDF also included) to support your learners.
These workbooks are ideal for independent study or set as topic-specific homework/revision.
Resource Includes:
Kant and duty
Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives
Kant’s three formulas
Application of Kantian Ethics
Assessing the idea of duty
Analysing Kantian ethics
Exam questions (35 marks each) and technique
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Situation Ethics, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Download as a Word document and as a PDF, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Fletcher
Agape
Four working principles
Six propositions
Application of Situation Ethics
Situationism as a religious theory
Analysing SE
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This is a learning mat indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Religion and Ethics: Natural Law, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. The PDF is also included, for compatibility.
Resource Includes:
Aristotle’s idea of telos
Four tiers of law (Aquinas)
Primary and secondary precepts (Aquinas)
Applying Natural Law and the doctrine of double effect
Analaysis of arguments
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Creative and visually engaging learning mat / revision sheet for inductive arguments for the existence of God
Created with the WJEC/Eduqas A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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Religions covered: Christianity and Humanist/Atheism
27 slide PPT, which is editable for your classroom. Two to view as examples.
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications. As an examiner for this specification, I have used what I know of the course to create this physically engaging and informative revision PowerPoint.
Topics covered:
0. Key Concepts
1. Creation
2. Evolution (+ Big Bang)
3. Stewardship
4. Sanctity of Life
5. Quality of Life
6. Abortion
7. Euthanasia (including hospices)
8. Soul and Afterlife
9. Judgement, Heaven and Hell
10. Funeral Services
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Thinking hats to explore the case study of Mary and Jodie.
Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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This booklet was created after my school's visit to a conference held by Dr. Peter Vardy.
The topics covered include:
1. Wealth, poverty and war
2. Sex and relationships
3. Medical Ethics
4. Environmental Ethics
I am using this 17-page booklet to stretch and increase the understanding of my G&T pupils
PPT covers ancient Egyptians, ancient Greeks, Milesians, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Zeno and Empedocles and their interpretation of what is known/reality / the theory of knowledge.
Easy and accessible resource for revision or to present new information. Q&A can be done as a brain box activity, independent work, revision or set as homework!