Religious Studies - year 12

“Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.”

-Martin Luther King Jr –

Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Philosophy		Philosophical Language	Ethics	Ethics
Plato- understanding a reality Objections to the theory of the Forms Aristotle and his philosophical views based on the four causes The Prime Mover, and Plato’s Form of the Good and objections to his theories A study of Soul, Mind and Body from the perspective of Plato Aristotle focusing on Dualism and Materialism Students also look at the main arguments for the existence of God based on observation The teleological argument Cosmological argument and arguments based on reason - the ontological argumenti>	Religious experience and the different types and nature of religious experience The problem of evil looking at the soul making theodicies and the work of Hick, Swinburne and D Z Philips The nature of God is studied : divine attributes and the nature of God through Boethius, St Anselm, Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga and timelessness	The apophatic and cataphatic use Analogy and symbol The verification principle by the Logical Positivists and the implications by Ayer and Swinburne’s solution Wittgenstein’s Language Games and 20th perspectives in the falsification debate, with the work of Flew, Hick, Hare, Mitchell and Ramsey	The issues of Ethics Aquinas and natural Law with principle of double effect Situation Ethics and the work of Joseph Fletcher Kantian ethics with the Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives Utilitarianism with the work of Bentham, Mill and Singer	The application of the ethical theories to three given areas Sexual Ethics – pre-marital and extra-marital sex, homosexuality, and the impact of secularism on sexual ethics Euthanasia – the problem of definition, the Law, the Sanctity of Life debate, Quality of Life and difference between voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia Business Ethics – corporate social responsibility, whistle-blowing, globalisation	Ethical Language – meta ethics Looking at the fact/value, is/ought problem Naturalism (definism), Intuitionism and Emotivism Conscience and the work of Aquinas and Freud What is a conscience ranging from a ‘voice’ of God, to Freud, Leibniz, Piaget
DWS Life Learning Skills
Inquirers, Thinkers, Open-minded, Reflection

Autumn 1	Autumn 2
Philosophy
Plato- understanding a reality Objections to the theory of the Forms Aristotle and his philosophical views based on the four causes The Prime Mover, and Plato’s Form of the Good and objections to his theories A study of Soul, Mind and Body from the perspective of Plato Aristotle focusing on Dualism and Materialism Students also look at the main arguments for the existence of God based on observation The teleological argument Cosmological argument and arguments based on reason - the ontological argumenti>	Religious experience and the different types and nature of religious experience The problem of evil looking at the soul making theodicies and the work of Hick, Swinburne and D Z Philips The nature of God is studied : divine attributes and the nature of God through Boethius, St Anselm, Swinburne and Alvin Plantinga and timelessness
DWS Life Learning Skills
Inquirers, Thinkers, Open-minded, Reflection

Spring 1	Spring 2
Philosophy Language and Ethics
The apophatic and cataphatic use Analogy and symbol The verification principle by the Logical Positivists and the implications by Ayer and Swinburne’s solution Wittgenstein’s Language Games and 20th perspectives in the falsification debate, with the work of Flew, Hick, Hare, Mitchell and Ramsey	The issues of Ethics Aquinas and natural Law with principle of double effect Situation Ethics and the work of Joseph Fletcher Kantian ethics with the Hypothetical and Categorical Imperatives Utilitarianism with the work of Bentham, Mill and Singer
DWS Life Learning Skills
Inquirers, Thinkers, Open-minded, Reflection

Summer 1	Summer 2
Ethics
The application of the ethical theories to three given areas Sexual Ethics – pre-marital and extra-marital sex, homosexuality, and the impact of secularism on sexual ethics Euthanasia – the problem of definition, the Law, the Sanctity of Life debate, Quality of Life and difference between voluntary and non-voluntary euthanasia Business Ethics – corporate social responsibility, whistle-blowing, globalisation	Ethical Language – meta ethics Looking at the fact/value, is/ought problem Naturalism (definism), Intuitionism and Emotivism Conscience and the work of Aquinas and Freud What is a conscience ranging from a ‘voice’ of God, to Freud, Leibniz, Piaget
DWS Life Learning Skills
Inquirers, Thinkers, Open-minded, Reflection

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