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OCR Ethics

AS Foundation

Meta Ethics

• Emotivism
• Intuitionism
• Prescriptivism

Ethical Theories

• Moral Relativism - Situation Ethics
• Virtue Ethics
• Natural Law

AS Religious Ethics 1

Ethical theory

• Kant and the Categorical Imperative
• Utilitarianism - Bentham and Mill
• Absolute and Relative morality
• Religious Ethics

Practical Ethics

• Abortion
• Euthanasia
• The Right to Life
• The Right to a Child
• Genetic Engineering
• Embryo Research

A2 Religious Ethics 2

Ethical theory

• Free Will and Determinism
• The Nature and Role of the Conscience

Practical Ethics

• Environmental ethics
• Sex and relationships
• War, peace and justice

A2 Connections

• the conscience or sense of moral responsibility as possible evidence for the existence of God
• the concept of free will and determinism in relation to the nature of an omniscient God
• issues of the extent to which God can be held to know the future, and the implications of this for human responsibility
• the relation between free will and the problem of evil
• the implications for ethics of the theories of psychology and sociology
• the relation between ethical language and religious language
• the relation between moral behaviour and life after death