TSAS Religion, Philosophy and Ethics A Level Website
Religious Ethics
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TSAS Religion, Philosophy and Ethics A Level Website
Religious Ethics |
| Quick Links Ethical Theories - General Links Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 GCSE A Level Moral Issues Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam Judaism Sikhism |
Make sure that you visit the Web Forum - take part in on-line discussion. 
Use this page to explore the various Ethical Theories, and to access sites that cover general Ethical issues. Scroll down to begin, or search the page for what you want. |
Use these links to support your work. Philosophers |
| The BBC offer an Ethics Newsletter - useful to keep up-to-date on Ethical Developments, and for examples for your essays! 
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Click on the area you are researching, These are links to pages on specific Ethical Theories. There will be more as I find the relevant links! |
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General Links for Ethics Morality Is Based On God's CommandsBishop Mortimer defends what is known as the divine command theory of ethics, according to which the rightness or wrongness of an action depends on God; commands. According to Mortimer; then, God; commands set forth a universally valid set of basic moral principles that are revealed to human beings in the Bible. Ethics for Schools This is a page from the Christian Medical Fellowship's excellent website. Use it to explore a range of medical ethical issues. The Golden Rule The Golden Rule crops up in a huge number of Religious traditions. This page gives a few. It is from a website run by a business offering Spiritual Values education advice for parents. Faithnet This site includes useful introductions to many of the topics that you will be studying. Center for Applied Christian Ethics This Institute is based at Wheaton College, a Christian University in Illinois. The Centre's website gives a distinctively Christian view of many of the Ethical issues of current concern. Peter Singer Links Peter Singer is the contraversial Ethicist who has argued for Animal Rights, Abortion and Euthanasia. Issues in Christian Ethics This site is hosted by (but not approved by!) the McAulay campus of the Australian Cathocil University. It is run by Yuri Koszarycz, a lecturer in Ethics and Church History. His Home page has further links to lecture notes on issues such as Bioethics. What's Right and Wrong and Why? For a thought provoking site based around its owner's conservative evangelical christian beliefs, follow this link! Professor Albert Spalding Professor Spalding is at Wayne State University in Detroit. He lists a vast number of Ethics resources including journals and Institutes devoted to Ethical research. The Moral Maze Follow this link to some stimulating discussion based on the Radio 4 Programme. Follow the pattern of the discussion and trace the arguments as people contribute. You can make your own contributions, too, but don't forget our own discussion forum! About.com About.com includes pages about almost any topic. This link takes you to the pages on Ethics. Click here to see a list of ethics websites. Laurence Hinman's Ethics pages This is an excellent resource! Ethics and Public Policy Centre A link to an American site - beware of bias! Journal of Religious Ethics This publication is based at Georgetown University. Faith and Reason Follow this link to the Vatican's presentation of Pope John Paul II's Encyclical on Faith and Reason. This was published in 1998, and deals with the relationship between Faith and Reason, and the way that Christians can make Ethical decisions in the modern world. Lawrence Hinman (again). This link takes you to a series of Powerpoint slides which accompanied a lecture given by Lawrence Hinman of the University of San Diego. Click here to go to the Ethics Update page on Religion and Ethics for more presentations, lectures and notes. See above for Lawrence Hinman's own Ethics pages. Business Ethics.ca This site provides an intoduction to the world of Business Ethics. For an interesting collection of case studies, click here. The DePaul University in Chicago has an Institute of Business and Professional Ethics - click here to see the on-line resources page. Ethics Updates This service brings regular and up-to-date news of the world of Ethics. Institute for Jewish Ethics Click here to get a Jewish perspective on modern day ethical issues. Cyberethics This site looks at the ethical implications of recent advances in Cybernetics! It is run by the College of Business and Industry at Mississippi State University. Kantian Ethics This site provides an introduction to Kant's ethics. It comes from a site dedicated to Philosophical Counselling and the new interest in Philosophy as a "self-help" discipline. Ethics on the Net This site is run from DePaul University in the USA. Center for Applied Ethics Another American University hosts this site, this time in Santa Clara. The International Journal of Medical Ethics This is a fascinating area of Ethics - click here to explore! The Journal of Buddhist Ethics This is something of a specialist field - more for the interested than for anything else! The Human Genome Project Following "G" Day, research this fascinating and highly significant topic. The link is to the official US Government site. Click here to go straight to the section that deals with Ethical, Legal and Social Issues associated with the Genome Project. Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority This is the organisation that regulates medical and research practices regarding Infertility and Embryology. Click on the link to see the regulations regarding the use and disposal of embryos. Ethics Papers This is a service offered to American students - for a fixed price per page, a paper on an Ethical debate will be e-mailed to the student. Since there is a charge for the paper, this will not be so useful for Sixth Formers, but teachers may find something useful! |