For all A Level Students

If you haven't visited rsrevision.com recently follow the link below to view all the new resources. These include new ethics revision cards and students essays to read and mark.

http://www.rsrevision.com/Alevel/ethics/contents/help.htm

Also very useful for ethics revision both at AS and A2 is philosophicalinvestigations. Check out the revision whizz throughs for a quick reminder of the topics.

http://philosophicalinvestigations.co.uk/

Year 11 Revision Sites

A reminder of a few good revision pages you can use ahead of next weeks exam:

http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/christian_perspectives/peace/index.htm

http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/christian_perspectives/carefortheplanet/index.htm

http://www.rsrevision.com/GCSE/christian_perspectives/genetics/index.htm

Can Mill's Utilitarianism be saved?

Talking Philosophy offers a fresh look at one of the favourite ethical theories amongst Abbeyfield students - Utilitarianism. The linked article takes a good look at Mill's utilitarianism but concludes perhaps that Mill's utilitarianism is still tarred with the same brush as Bentham's and therefore falls to the same weaknesses. Again useful food for thought ahead of A level exams.

http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=2751

Is targeted killing ethical?

Further to our discussions today about the greater good, I urge Y13 A2 students to read this article from Talking Philosophy. It poses the question whether targeted killing of an individual is ethical in the light of Bin Laden's death. Y12 students can also link this discussion to the war topic and is it ever right to fight.
http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=2810&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CombinedTpmBloggingFeed+%28Combined+TPM+Blogging+Feed%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

'Suicide tourism' set to continue in Switzerland

Voters in Zurich, Switzerland, have rejected proposed bans on assisted suicide and "suicide tourism".

Some 85% of the 278,000 votes cast opposed the ban on assisted suicide and 78% opposed outlawing it for foreigners, Zurich authorities said.

About 200 people commit assisted suicide each year in Zurich, including many foreign visitors.

Read the full story via the Guardian website here or on the BBC News website here

Virtue Ethics Revision Video - o2 Learn

Virtue ethics revision video:

https://www.o2learn.co.uk/o2_video.php?vid=1141