Philosophy and Ethics

Assessment

3x A-Level exams sat at the end of Year 13 – Edexcel Religious Studies Paper 1: Philosophy of Religion – The problem of evil, arguments for the existence of God, Religious Experience, death and the afterlife. Paper 2: Ethics – Utilitarianism, Situation Ethics, Kantian Ethics, and Natural Moral Law. Applied ethics – War and Peace, Sexual Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Equality Ethics, Medical Ethics and End-of-life care. Paper 3: Theology – Did Jesus really resurrect from the dead? Does science make the Bible redundant? Problems of authorship, purpose and propaganda in the Gospels.