[Coffeegirl]

like as in my teacher said that in the part B's they often link ontological with atheism and sometimes with religious experience...so in the same way.. i think im getting confused because i cant find any past papers but thanks for that question

[12lightf]

(Original post by Coffeegirl)
like as in my teacher said that in the part B's they often link ontological with atheism and sometimes with religious experience...so in the same way.. i think im getting confused because i cant find any past papers but thanks for that question

Yeah that is true. Happily, RL can't be linked to any other topics - its in a block with only RL and Life after Death. With two questions there always has to be one on each so RL won't be linked with another topic. The thing to watch is that obviously RL is a big topic so you might have, for example, Analogy and Verificationism for part A and Languages Games for part B.

[Sadsnail]

Hi guys

Last 39 hour cram here. Killing me.

Do we need to know

analogy
myth and symbol
AND language games

or can we miss one of those out????

[headbands,]

Does any one know of any similarities / differences between
1) Kantian Deontology & Natural Moral Law
2) Virtue Ethics and NML?


Also what would we need to write about if the question was the key features of religious experience? I've just learnt strengths and weaknesses

[headbands,]

(Original post by Sadsnail)
Hi guys

Last 39 hour cram here. Killing me.

Do we need to know

analogy
myth and symbol
AND language games

or can we miss one of those out????

that should be fine along with verification & falsification

[Sadsnail]

(Original post by headbands,)
that should be fine along with verification & falsification

So you think I need to do all 3 of them?? xx

[301lw]

(Original post by gl71994)
Ah brilliant thanks!
ok, so ethical language is only going to be in q4 with justice/law/punishment? So if I only want to do one ethics I can get away with just learning ethical theory? and possibly religion and morality maybe as its a sticky topic. I've currently revised it all (bar ontological and law/punishment) but want to cut it down for the last push before the exam so i know exactly what i'm doing.

yeah that's what i'm learning, ethical language and religion & morality as a back up

[301lw]

(Original post by Sadsnail)
So you think I need to do all 3 of them?? xx

well like we saw in june 2010's paper they gave us a choice of three, they might specify two to talk about so i would really recommend learning all of them

[Sadsnail]

(Original post by 301lw)
well like we saw in june 2010's paper they gave us a choice of three, they might specify two to talk about so i would really recommend learning all of them

So is BARE minimum

Ontological
Atheism
Verification falsification language games myth and symbol analogy
deontology
natural moral law
virtue ethics

??

[301lw]

(Original post by Sadsnail)
So is BARE minimum

Ontological
Atheism
Verification falsification language games myth and symbol analogy
deontology
natural moral law
virtue ethics

??

yeah should be fine

[gl71994]

(Original post by headbands,)
Does any one know of any similarities / differences between
1) Kantian Deontology & Natural Moral Law
2) Virtue Ethics and NML?


Also what would we need to write about if the question was the key features of religious experience? I've just learnt strengths and weaknesses

Deontology and NML are both absolutist theories, prescribing fixed moral laws and real duties. Both are non-consequentialist. But deontology is less to do with God and religion, it's more separate and more applicable to secular society, it's not reliant upon religious belief.

Virtue ethics is character based, its person centred rather than absolutes. Thus its a more modern approach to ethics than NML and again, much more applicable to a secular society.

Thats very basic but hopefully you can get some idea.

Key features of religious experience I would include:
William James (Noetic/Transient/Passive/Ineffable etc.)
Otto (Numinous)
Schleiermacher (Self authenticicating)
Kierkegaard possibly. (leap of faith)
St Teresa of Avila is a good example

Strengths and weaknesses are used for part B normally, but you need to know the general arguments in support explaining the features for part A. Plus the arguments for religious experience as evidence for god and in support of REs (swinburne, inductive argument, cumulative argument etc.) And then the arguments against also (Freud, Dawkins, Mackie etc.).

Hope this helps

[headbands,]

(Original post by Sadsnail)
So you think I need to do all 3 of them?? xx

I would just to be on the safe side

[headbands,]

(Original post by gl71994)
Deontology and NML are both absolutist theories, prescribing fixed moral laws and real duties. Both are non-consequentialist. But deontology is less to do with God and religion, it's more separate and more applicable to secular society, it's not reliant upon religious belief.

Virtue ethics is character based, its person centred rather than absolutes. Thus its a more modern approach to ethics than NML and again, much more applicable to a secular society.

Thats very basic but hopefully you can get some idea.

Key features of religious experience I would include:
William James (Noetic/Transient/Passive/Ineffable etc.)
Otto (Numinous)
Schleiermacher (Self authenticicating)
Kierkegaard possibly. (leap of faith)
St Teresa of Avila is a good example

Strengths and weaknesses are used for part B normally, but you need to know the general arguments in support explaining the features for part A. Plus the arguments for religious experience as evidence for god and in support of REs (swinburne, inductive argument, cumulative argument etc.) And then the arguments against also (Freud, Dawkins, Mackie etc.).

Hope this helps

Thanks for this
My gosh I'm screwed, we have just been learning strengths & weaknesses :/

[Losche]

Hi, i'm getting quite worried about the Life After Death question - I have learnt about resurrection and Immortality of the Soul, do I also need to learn rebirth and reincarnation or is this enough? Please reply!

[SCheng]

(Original post by Losche)
Hi, i'm getting quite worried about the Life After Death question - I have learnt about resurrection and Immortality of the Soul, do I also need to learn rebirth and reincarnation or is this enough? Please reply!

Hi i'm doing life after death as well, and i've been advised by my teacher to learn all four beliefs. Even though in the past papers for June 2010/11 they don't care which beliefs you write about (as long as you write about two), in the old specification on one paper they bullet pointed 3 beliefs then told you to write about two, but if you're relying on resurrection and and immortality of the soul, and one of them didn't come up then you'll be a bit screwed.

They could set out the questions like this in theory although it is unlikely, but you might as well revise two very well, and then have the other two as back up. I hope this helps.

[Coffeegirl]

Compare and contrast two types of religious language.
how do you exactly do the comparing and contrasting?? am soo stuck

[Spicot]

Hey, Is it likely that there will be a compare and contrast between 2 ethical theories? e.g. Virtue ethics and NML?
SOOOOO nervouse :/

[Losche]

(Original post by SCheng)
Hi i'm doing life after death as well, and i've been advised by my teacher to learn all four beliefs. Even though in the past papers for June 2010/11 they don't care which beliefs you write about (as long as you write about two), in the old specification on one paper they bullet pointed 3 beliefs then told you to write about two, but if you're relying on resurrection and and immortality of the soul, and one of them didn't come up then you'll be a bit screwed.

They could set out the questions like this in theory although it is unlikely, but you might as well revise two very well, and then have the other two as back up. I hope this helps.

It does, thank you very much

[SCheng]

(Original post by Losche)
It does, thank you very much

No problem What other questions are you planning on answering?

[vaishali192]

oh no! we've only been taught
ontological
NML
RL
DEONTOLOGY
VIRTUE ETHICS


so... if ontological argument doesnt come up i am really going to fail