Edexcel A2 Philosophy and Ethics, UNIT4: Implications

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This. I feel slightly better now knowing I'm not the only one.

THIS! Is Westphal still alive? :tongue:

I wish I had a time machine. I'd go back in time and tell him concentrating on Philosophy is stupid and he should become a hermit.

Baaaby you're not alooone! Cause you're here with me! And nothing's ever gonna take us down... :tongue:

/singing

Should we do some sort of structured help each other thing?

I'll pull out all my resources on Donavan and Ayer. Anyone else totally bypassing Westphal?

seriously considering it, kant will be the death of me.

Reply 101

diamonddust

http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/documents/Richard_Kueh_notes_on_Donovan_Source_and_Religious_Experience_3of3.pdf

Website for Donavan

Reply 102

lissshannon

what can i put in A02 for westphal?

Reply 103

toniSPICE

haha, "kant will be the death of me" - agreed!
not feeling this exam :/ fml

Reply 104

Bluemonster3

Original post by nafeesa_x

hi everyone, exam tomorrow :frown:

i think Ayer might come up my teacher also agrees
anyways i have a link to some really good stuff on Ayer which should help you in the exam
http://www.divinity.cam.ac.uk/documents/Richard%20Kueh%20notes%20on%20Ayer%20Source%20and%20Religious%20Language%202of3.pdf

Even stressed out more now because I don't know half the stuff that is mentioned there D:
Good website though :P

Reply 105

nafeesa_x

Original post by diamonddust

I'm sure you'll be fine!

I officially love you! :love:

That website is seriously amazing. I actually sort of understand what you're meant to do now. Basically look at all the key terms and highlight what they mean... I knew that was what we were meant to do but I didn't understand it at all in principle. Thank you!

If I don't totally fail this exam, I'll buy you all drinks or something!

haha happy to help :smile:

Reply 106

Kebabbi

by the way, anyone know what the grade boundary is to get an A? Not for this exam but for the whole A2 overall?

Reply 107

diamonddust

Original post by lissshannon

what can i put in A02 for westphal?

You know your knowledge is bad when you read this and your first thought is 'Who's Westphal?' :facepalm:

Reply 108

diamonddust

Original post by Kebabbi

by the way, anyone know what the grade boundary is to get an A? Not for this exam but for the whole A2 overall?

*hopes they're stupidly low*

Reply 109

sfriday

Original post by Kebabbi

by the way, anyone know what the grade boundary is to get an A? Not for this exam but for the whole A2 overall?

i THINK (from what i remember) it's 320/400

Reply 110

sfriday

Original post by diamonddust

*hopes they're stupidly low*

heh. same. how much of this exam can i blag without knowing very much at all?? i need 75ish (UMS) for an A overall, and don't know where to begin with revision aha

Reply 111

diamonddust

If I don't know **** by 10pm, I'm giving up!

Reply 112

monkeyonthelake

Well the UMS changes with how difficult the papers are... so they had better be very lenient this year as they have been horrible so far!

Don't ask me how the UMS works though as I really don't understand it. :tongue:

Reply 113

Dark lugia 2

I'm making my notes on religious experience now, when thats over i'll jot own a couple of philosophers from the cosmological and teleological arguments and stop. Then I'll look over all of Ayer's paragraphs in case he actually does come up.

I'm scared.

Reply 114

lissshannon

Original post by diamonddust

You know your knowledge is bad when you read this and your first thought is 'Who's Westphal?' :facepalm:

i couldnt tell you who he was tbh, just he is clearly evil and wants me to suffer.

Reply 115

gravitywontgetyouhigh

how are you guys revising this? every time I even attempt to read one of the article, i loose concentration/care within 10 minutes! seriously loosing the world to live!!

Reply 116

lissshannon

Original post by gravitywontgetyouhigh

how are you guys revising this? every time I even attempt to read one of the article, i loose concentration/care within 10 minutes! seriously loosing the world to live!!

ive made a list of key words that need to/i want to be in each essay. So for westphal: scholasticism, deism, hume/kant, deontology, schilemacher, hume, marx. and then memorising the key words. it worked really well for the developments, and the essays themselves make me want to cry :') however the AO2 section of westphal is lacking and i think if he comes up im just going to have to blag my way through :')

Reply 117

Bluemonster3

Original post by gravitywontgetyouhigh

how are you guys revising this? every time I even attempt to read one of the article, i loose concentration/care within 10 minutes! seriously loosing the world to live!!

For Ayer, my teacher helped me come up with an introduction and conclusion that can be applied to any of the extracts that come up so I am just looking at it and typing it up again. For the main part, I just done detailed notes on each of the paragraphs; looking at them and typing them up :smile:

I sort of gave up trying to revise Westphal and Donovan so I am screwed if Ayer does not come up D:

By 9pm I will probably have given up. It might be even 10pm! but I have no will power so I doubt it :P