Summer Holiday research task: Philosophy Cosmological Argument research and learn the key terms to describe God eg Omnibenevolent. Ethics Research the core beliefs of Jeremy Bentham s Act Utilitarianism.
Course Content The Eduqas syllabus is in Three parts: Component 1: A study of Religion. Component 2: Philosophy. Component 3: Ethics. Each unit will be assessed with a linear exam at the end of Yr 13. Each unit is equally weighted at one third of the marks each. We have had a 100% pass rate for 20 years and last year achieved 80% A-C, 50% A-B.
Component 1: A study of Religion. Theme 1 Religious figures and sacred texts Jesus, birth and resurrection and the Bible as a source of wisdom. The early church and contrasting views of Jesus. Theme 2 Religious concepts and religious life the nature of God (male female? Can God suffer?). The trinity. Religious concepts atonement and life after death. Religious lives and key moral principles. Theme 3- Significant social and historical developments in religious thought - Religion, equality and discrimination. Feminist theology and the changing role of men and woman. Migration and Christianity in the UK. Attitudes towards wealth. Theme 4 Religious practices that shape religious identity - Baptism, Eucharist, Christmas and Easter.
Component 2: Philosophy. Theme 1 Arguments for the existence of God Cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments and challenges to these arguments. The views of David Hume and scientific arguments against the existence of god. Theme 2 Challenges to religious belief the problem of evil and suffering. Theodicies and Psychological challenges of Freud and Jung. Atheism. Theme 3- Religious experience visions, mystical experiences, miracles and the contrasting views of Davis Hume and Richard Swinburne on them. Theme 4 Religious language problems, cognitive but meaningless, analogical, symbolic, mythical, a language game?
Component 2: Philosophy. Theme 1 Arguments for the existence of God Cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments and challenges to these arguments. The views of David Hume and scientific arguments against the existence of god. Theme 2 Challenges to religious belief the problem of evil and suffering. Theodicies and Psychological challenges of Freud and Jung. Atheism. Theme 3- Religious experience visions, mystical experiences, miracles and the contrasting views of Davis Hume and Richard Swinburne on them. Theme 4 Religious language problems, cognitive but meaningless, analogical, symbolic, mythical, a language game?
Component 3: Ethics. Theme 1 Ethical thought Divine command theory, Virtue theory, Ethical Egoism and Meta-ethical approaches. Theme 2 Deontological Ethics Natural Law and the application of the theories to abortion and voluntary euthanasia. John Finnis and Bernard Hoose s development of natural law and it s application to immigration and capital punishment. Situation Ethics and it s application to homosexual and polyamorous relationships. Theme 3- Teleoligical Ethics Utilitarianism and it s application to the use of animals for medical research and nuclear weapons as a deterrent. Theme 4 Determinism and Free Will concepts of predestination and determinism. The implications of both for moral responsibility. Religious concepts of free will. Libertarianism and it s implications.