OCR A-level Religious Studies Paper 2 - 17th June 2025 [Exam Chat]

Could anyone please give me 3 topic points for 'Fletcher’s understanding of ‘agape’ means nothing more than wanting the best for the person involved in a given situation', I can only think of one paragraph on its roots in Christianity (I want to disagree with the claim and say it has deeper weight than simply doing the best thing)

I can only come up with another one sorry, but maybe speak about how Fletcher created the theory based on the english language ideal of love, but agape surpasses this as an idea. Language constricts the idea of Agape love and its above this maybe. Sorry for not being much help

anyone know if meta ethics could come up in 2 questions bc i'm planning on avoiding it

Please can someone explain how you’d structure an applied ethics essay

It could be linked to euthanasia maybe but I think it would be really difficult to do

I think I'd actually cry if it came up alongside a business ethics question on globalisation.

I lowkey just hate business ethics and sexual ethics and knowing my luck they’ll both come up so revise those guys 😭

I don’t really understand mill and Bantham utilitarianism can someone summarise it for me

i always say that mill's is stronger. mill proposes a RULE that if an act is good it conforms to happiness. he uses pig philosophy to say like being an unhappy human is a HIGHER PLEASURE than being a happy pig- which is a LOWER PLEASURE. he has a non harm principle- so whilst bentham runs the risk of excluding minoritys with his principle of utility (the maximum amount of please is the best), mill protects individuals. benthams uses the hedonic calculus to work out the most amount of happiness in a situation, however this excludes minorites in situations.

i always say that mill's is stronger. mill proposes a RULE that if an act is good it conforms to happiness. he uses pig philosophy to say like being an unhappy human is a HIGHER PLEASURE than being a happy pig- which is a LOWER PLEASURE. he has a non harm principle- so whilst bentham runs the risk of excluding minoritys with his principle of utility (the maximum amount of please is the best), mill protects individuals. benthams uses the hedonic calculus to work out the most amount of happiness in a situation, however this excludes minorites in situations.

I wouldn't mind Kantian ethics for both of those but surely that won't happen anyway 😭

you think so? i honestly consider it quite contained in comparison to some of the others they could've asked, especially the problem of evil + attributes of god 🥲 was a decent question but i wasn't prepared! but talking of repeats i'd love to see natural law and meta ethics again this year haha