OCR RS Philosophy and Ethics A2

Which ones are you missing out? I am ignoring Virtue Ethics and Business Ethics and also focusing the most on Conscience and Sexual Ethics

I am so nervous for a question on sexual ethics as i don't know much about it. I feel i can easily apply ethical theories and make up examples of situations, but i was wondering how much actual knowledge about sexual ethics i need to include and i don't know much at all, especially Christian Ethics wise.
I have also revised Conscience, Meta-Ethics, Free Will & Determinism so i'm not sure if i'm safe against the evil questions they could ask

Question: can they ask us about abortion specifically? Because a lot of the notes I've looked at and resources I'm using don't cover it? If so, I'll put something small together to say about it -- I mean you could still blag it with ethical theories as much of the same applies, but I'd rather be prepped!

Abortion? Why do we need to know about abortion; spec only mentions pre-martial & extraparital, contraception and homosexuality?

Does anyone know any strengths and weaknesses for any of the environmental applications/theories? In particular The Gaia Theory.

I have hardly anything under my notes for ethical naturalism, can someone help me? Right, so I literally have a 3 line explanation of what it is then just moore's criticism of it? Am I meant to know more people on this ?

Ok so I've revised VE, conscience and nearly just about covered free will. Have determinism and sexual ethics to do. Will I be fine? As I don't think I've got enough time on my hands to revise the other topics? #Stressed.

any opinions?

You will be fine. I keep saying this to others: as long as you revise 4 out of the 6 topics, you shall be fine. 2 topics may come up from the 2 you didn't revise, but then the other two will be from the ones you have revised.

However, that considered, perhaps go over the 2 topics... if you can be bothered. I know I'm not touching business/enviro and sexual ethics with a 10 ft pole, so I'm just sticking and to my topics and revising them religiously.. (pardon the really bad (intended) pun)

What are you supposed to talk about if a question has Virtuous Ethics?

Official predictions:

1. Freud and Conscience
2. Virtuous Ethics and Environmental Ethics
3. Apply an ethical theory to contraception
4. Virtue Ethics
5. Business Ethics and Conscience

My predictions:

1. Conscience
2. Virtue Ethics
3. Sexual Ethics
4. Business/Enviro

What I want:

1. Conscience
2. Free-will/Determinism
3. Virtuous Ethics
4. Meta-Ethics

Ughhh I can't revise anymore! I cannot wait for this to be over

You can talk about Aristotle - he's got a lot of swag you can talk about, you can also evaluate him quite well.

Here's a summary of Aristotle.

- Goal of Eudaimonia, life long pursuit, basically means human happiness, flourishing ect. Aristotle claimed following the life od contemplation and theoretical wisdom is the greatest of human virtues and the highest form of happiness. Remember than Aristotle was sexist and only believed than Men could be virtuous though. Eudaimonia is the highest good, the best and happiest life according to Aristotle is living in a community respecting the interests of those around you and your own interests.

- Being part of a virtuous community. Aristotle concern was primarily the well being of the polis, the community which embraces all other communities; the state that is concerned with the common good. Virtue Ethics was mainly intended to privide a community in which citizens live meaningful social and political lives.

- The Golden mean, the mean point between the 2 vices. For Aristotle, virtues were found in the Golden Mean: the right balance between 2 extremes, each extreme was called a vice. The virtuous mean is not a mid point but a judgement point that depends on the situation. e.g the courage for a soldier is different to the courage needed to remove a spider from the bath. Aristotle claimed we needed to use reasoning, which he said was the quality which sets humans apart from animals. Human choices are based on phronesis (the practical reason which is used to make the right ethical decision)

- Developing virtues through habit (arete). Virtues need to be practiced until they become habit. Virutes of Aristotle are aretes, a skill in which one become excellence through practice.

- Following the examples of virtuous people. Aristotle also stated that we can become virtuous by following virtuous people, e.g. Gandhi and Ned Stark.

If you want me to sum up Modern V Ethics just say.