This resource contains all relevant materials for the ‘Meta-Ethics’ section of Moral Philosophy for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. All theories, criticisms and defences are included alongside exam materials and questions to probe students for deeper thinking. For further activities, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resource includes:
Moral Realism
Naturalism
Innatism
Moral Anti-Realism
Emotivism
Prescriptivism
Cognitivism and non-Cognitivism
Strengths and issues of these
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A complete collection of resources needed for studying Deontological Kantian Ethics for the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. This contains all relevant theories, criticisms and and defences. Whilst questions and activities are provided, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook for additional activities.
Resource includes:
The Categorical Imperative
The Universal Law Formulation
The Humanity Formulation
Strengths and issues
Application to the eight suggested scenarios
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This resources contains all materials needed for Aristotelian Virtue Ethics, as part of the ‘Moral Philosophy’ section of the AQA A-Level Philosophy course. All theories, criticisms and defences are included, alongside relevant exam practice and questions to probe student understanding. For additional activities, please use the official AQA A-Level Philosophy textbook.
Resources includes:
Function of the soul
Moral responsibility
Virtue and vice
Doctrine of the Mean
The role of practical wisdom/reasoning
Eudaimonia
Strengths and issues
Application to the eight suggested scenarios
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A fully-resourced, detailed and differentiated 2 hour lesson which serves as an introduction to Ethics. This is perfect as part of a KS3/KS4 RE or philosophy unit and focuses on philosophers, theories and fallacies.
This lesson is editable, so easy to adapt for your own planning and contains match up tasks, clip tasks, literacy and debate tasks, information sheets and more, as well as an engaging 2 hour PowerPoint. It is well-differentiated with three-level challenges for each task and very easy to follow.
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An easy to follow end of unit assessment, mark scheme and feedback sheet for an introduction unit on philosophy and ethics. It has been created for the EC Publishing Introduction to Philosophy unit, but is editable and can be tweaked to suit your own. This is perfect as part of a KS3/KS4 RE or philosophy unit and focuses on philosophers, theories and fallacies.
Who are EC Resources?
EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK.
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Based around the question 'What is Philosophy and Ethics?', this display looks at RE/ Philosophy & Ethics from different viewpoints: politics, maths, history, writing, science etc to show why RE/ Philosophy & Ethics is important today!
Set of lessons (all in one PP-102 slides/sectioned as below)
Lessons link
Re-cap throughout
Range of scaffolded activities
Teacher friendly/answers are revealed on hidden slides etc.
Lessons ready to go and well-resourced
Assessment throughout (could be done as a lesson or home learning if needs to be taught over one half term)
Taught all the way through - amazing pupil engagement
**Philosophy: **
L1 – What is Philosophy (Socrates)
L2 – Existence of God – Introduction to Arguments
L3 – The Design Argument
L4 – Miracles
L5 – Existence of God Extended Writing
Ethics:
L1 – Introduction to Ethics/Utilitarianism
L2 – Deontology
L3 – Utilitarianism and Deontology Extended Writing
Application:
L1 – Introduction to Capital Punishment and Debate
L2 and 3 – Documentary and Consolidation/Evaluation Activities
L4 – Capital Punishment Extended Writing and Speech
The lesson discusses what it means to be a good person and ethics.
Level: Advanced (C1)
Time: 90 min+
Age: 15+
Language: discussing what it means to be a good person.
Additional resources: lesson uses YouTube.
A comprehensive revision booklet covering both Judaism units (beliefs and teachings / practices) from the GCSE Edexcel Spec A course as well as both Philosophy and Ethics units (existence of God / relationships and family in the 21st century). For each of the four Edexcel units the booklet contains:
A specification checklist
A bullet point information sheet with accompanying comprehension questions (aimed at lower ability students)
An information sheet outlining the meaning and importance for each topic (aimed at addressing part B and C questions)
A source of wisdom and authority sheet with the exam board recommended SOWAs for students to fill in
Two A3 sized mind maps with a breakdown of each topic for students to populate
A key terms list with space for students to write definitions
All previous exam questions from the first specification paper until the 2022 paper.
This printable textbook provides a systematic explanation for every point mentioned in the specification.
In the next section It then provides arguments for and against each point and, where appropriate, summarises arguments using premises and conclusions.
The file is a .doc Word file, 140 pages in length, 72000 words.
It is designed to be a comprehensive reader for AQA Philosophy students.
This should be viewed as a printable information book: it does not include learning activities or images. It aims to provide the necessary information as effectively and comprehensively as possible.
Note: it does not cover the Applied Ethics section which, if this resource succeeds, will be covered in a later volume.
A detailed scheme of work created for our [Introduction to Religion, Philosophy and Ethics Unit] which covers one term’s resources and includes an assessment and mark scheme. This was created for our Complete Year 8 RE package, which can be found on Tes here.
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A Philosophy and Ethics unit for KS3 (probably Year 9 or high ability year 8.)
Philosophy section includes:
An introduction to Philosophy
What is the meaning of life?
Body and Soul.
Life after death.
Ethics section includes:
Moral Dilemmas.
Absolute vs Relative.
Ethical Theories.
Designer Babies.
Euthanasia.
A range of revision worksheets that cover the Edexcel Catholic Christianity and Philosophy and Ethics sections of the Religious studies course. I use these for year 10 and 11 mock and GCSE Exam revision and independent study.
Included are:
Prayer, Creation, Pilgrimages, Visions,
Eschatology and Life after death
Forms of Expression
Religious Imagery and Symbols
Architecture and Design
Marriage and Divorce
Remarriage
Gender Prejudice and discrimination
The Design Argument
The Cosmological Argument
The Trinity
Evil and Suffering
Designed as an introduction to philosophy and ethics in year 9, looking at key philosophical skills and the types of ethical questions discussed at philosophy and ethics GCSE.
A series of summer tasks for students to complete before starting their AS Philosophy of Religion and Religious Ethics. This is designed for the OCR Specification (G571 and G572).
The 4 week test and mark scheme cover some basics around argumentation and logic in Philosophy and Ethics. It is designed to bridge the gap between a full AS assessment and a Level 2/GCSE assessment.
The Summer Tasks involve reading, research and link to the 4 week test.
The other two sheets are handouts/worksheets to help prepare students for Part 1 of the test.
Full working documents for revision or independent study for the topic of Philosophy and Ethics: Good and Evil, Relationships, Life and Death and Human Rights.
Document includes a variety of tasks, from mind-mapping to letter and script writing, to embed learning from each of the topics below. Learning and revision for the entire Philosophy and Ethics course.
Download as an editable Word document and as a PDF, for compatibility.
Booklets focuses on Philosophy and Ethics from a Christian perspective.
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 resource.
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