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OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2: Selected Contents
September 2008: 246x189: 464ppPb: 978-0-415-46824-4: £16.99 http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468244
OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2: Selected Contents
June 2008: 246x189: 336ppPb: 978-0-415-46825-1: £16.99 http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468251
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How to Use This Book. Acknowledgements. Answering Exam-Style Questions
PART 1: The God of Philosophy 1. Plato and Philosophy of Religion 2. Aristotle and Philosophy of Religion
PART 2: The God of Faith 3. God the Creator 4. The Goodness of God Summary Parts 1 and 2: The Gods of Faith and Philosophy Compared
PART 3: The Existence of God 5. The Ontological Argument 6. The Cosmological Argument 7. The Teleological Argument 8. The Moral Argument
PART 4: Challenges to the Belief in God 9. The Problem of Evil 10. Religion and Science
PART 5: The Nature of Religious Belief 11. Life After Death 12. Revelation and Holy Scripture 13. Miracles 14. Religious Language
How to Use This Book. Answering Exam-Style Questions. Timeline
PART 1: AS Ethics 1. What is Ethics? 2. Moral Absolutism and Moral Relativism 3. Natural Moral Law 4. Kant 5. Utilitarianism 6. Religious Ethics – Christian Ethics 7. Medical Ethics 1 – Abortion and the Right to a Child 8. Medical Ethics 2 – Euthanasia and the Right to Life 9. Medical Ethics 3 – Genetic Engineering and Embryo Research 10. War and Peace
PART 2: A2 Ethics11. Meta-Ethics – The Language of Ethics 12. Virtue Ethics 13. Free Will and Determinism 14. Conscience 15. Environmental and Business Ethics 16. Sexual Ethics
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OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2
Jill Oliphant Edited by Jon MayledPraise for 1st Edition:
“A long overdue Ethics text book for students which meets the criteria for the OCR specifi cation in an interesting and clear way; it will provide valuable support for independent learning.” - J. Anderson, Head of Religious Studies, Wyedean School, Gloucestershire
Religious Ethics for AS and A2 is a textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses, structured directly around the OCR GCE Religious Studies specifi cation. The book covers all the topics of the Religious Ethics component of the A-level specifi cation in an enjoyable and student-friendly fashion.
This new edition has been restructured for the new specifi cation and now includes a section on business ethics. The companion website has been enhanced to include more support material for teachers.
http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468251
June 2008: 246x189: 336ppPb: 978-0-415-46825-1: £16.99
NEW
www.routledge.com/religion
OCR Religious Studies for AS and A2 from Routledge
Each book includes chapters containing:
• a list of key issues, to introduce students to the topic
• OCR Syllabus checklist
• explanations of key terminology
• discussion questions, thought points and activities
• exam-style practice questions
• self-test review questions
• helpful summaries
• annotated further reading suggestions.
Each book comes complete with lively illustrations, a comprehensive glossary and full bibliography to help students get to grips with the OCR requirements.
PLATO’S THEORY OF FORMS
The starter exercises drew your attention to the difference between ideas
and ideas expressed in reality. For example, you can recognise a cat because
you know what a cat is, i.e. you have an idea of what a cat is. For Plato this
distinction is crucial. First, the knowledge of what a cat is precedes you
actually seeing a cat. Secondly, Plato suggests that the world we live in is a
world of appearances but the real world is a world of ideas that he calls
Forms.
The world we live in is a world of appearances, but it is not the most
important or real world. In the material world things that exist like trees and
plants will all die. What makes a tree a tree however, or a cat a cat, is the
way in which it corresponds to the Form of tree or cat.
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THE OCR CHECKLIST
In this chapter you will cover the following aspects of the OCR
specification:
1 Plato’s theory of Forms, focusing on:
(a) What a Form is;
(b) What is meant by the Form of the Good;
(c) The relationship between Forms and the physical world;
(d) Strengths and weaknesses of Plato’s theory of Forms;
(e) Plato’s analogy of the Cave.
2 Plato’s concept of the soul
(a) What a soul is;
(b) The relationship between the soul and the body in Plato’s
philosophy;
(c) The relationship between the soul and the Forms.
�Plato the man
(428–347 BCE)
Plato is one of the most
famous philosophers in
history. His writings
influenced the development
of philosophy throughout
the Western world and a
large number of his books
survive. Plato was taught
by the first great Western
Philosopher, Socrates.
Most of the books he wrote
have Socrates as the
leading character in them.
His early books are about
Socrates’ philosophy but
the later ones present
arguments from Plato’s
own thinking.
Plato wrote about
many issues ranging from
the existence of the soul
and the nature of beauty,
to who should run a
government. Plato
founded his own school
of philosophy, like a
University, called the
Academia from which we
get the word Academy in
English. He died in 347
BCE, aged 81.
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OCR Syllabus checklists
These new editions have been fully updated in line with the new OCR GCE Religious Studies specifi cation and are ideal textbooks to give your students every chance of exam success.
The starter exercises drew your attention to the difference between ideas
and ideas expressed in reality. For example, you can recognise a cat because
you know what a cat is, i.e. you have an idea of what a cat is. For Plato this
distinction is crucial. First, the knowledge of what a cat is precedes you
actually seeing a cat. Secondly, Plato suggests that the world we live in is a
is a world of ideas that he calls
The world we live in is a world of appearances, but it is not the most
important or real world. In the material world things that exist like trees and
plants will all die. What makes a tree a tree however, or a cat a cat, is the
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In this chapter you will cover the following aspects of the OCR
(b) The relationship between the soul and the body in Plato’s
GCE Religious Studies specifi cation and are ideal textbooks to give your When we are born we have a dim recollection of what Forms are, because
Plato argues that we have an immortal soul that observed the Forms beforebeing incarnated in a body. However, in the body the memories of the soulare only dim. Plato’s evidence for this claim was the fact that people canhave a basic understanding of something like Truth, Justice or Beautywithout being taught it. Instinctively we can know something is beautifuleven if we do not know about the Form of Beauty. This leads Plato to claimthat humans have an immortal soul. The philosopher is someone who triesto escape the world of appearances and with their mind see the Forms thatlie behind appearances. Because the true philosopher has knowledge of theForms Plato argues that they are the most suitable people to rule society.
Education, according to Plato, is a matter of remembering and recalling the world of Forms; knowledge of which is in the soul but hidden by theincarnation of the soul in the body. For Plato people do not learn new things;
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the god of philosophy8
The Soul
For more information, seethe section later in thechapter about the soul.
Thought PointJustice and Injustice
All the beliefs listed below are unjust according to many people today,yet they are all examples of practices that have occurred or areoccurring in different parts of the world today. 1 Is this behaviour just or unjust?2 Is there a single concept of justice that all these actions break?
(Also, can you identify a culture where this behaviour is seen to bejust?)
A Discriminating against people on the grounds of race;B Keeping women at home and not educating them;C Discriminating against homosexual people;E Stoning to death rebellious sons who refuse to obey their
parents;F Sterilizing people who are mildly mentally disabled.
Form
By ‘Form’ Plato meant the ideaof something. For example, ifyou say ‘Look! There’s a cat’,you have some idea of what acat is and you can recogniselots of different types of cats.All the different types of catsembody the Form of a cat;some set of characteristics thatresemble the idea of what a catis. The Form of anything is not
physical but is the eternal ideaof what a thing is.
Soul
The immortal, non-physical,eternal part of a human beingthat is the centre of a person’sidentity and character.
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Thought Points
Explanations of Key Terms and Concepts
About the authorsMatthew Taylor is Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Colchester County High School for Girls. He was previously Head of Religious Studies and Philosophy at St Gregory the Great Roman Catholic V. A. School in Oxford.
Jill Oliphant teaches Religious Studies at Angley School, Cranbrook, Kent. She is also an experienced examiner.
Jon Mayled is a chief examiner. He is author and editor of many popular books for the GCSE syllabus.
OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2
Matthew TaylorEdited by Jon MayledPraise for 1st Edition:
“This is an excellent book with appropriate and comprehensive material for the specifi cation. It has a clear layout which makes it ‘pupil friendly’. I shall certainly use it with my AS and A2 students.” - Geraldine Crouch, Head of Religious Studies, St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent
Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2 is a textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses, structured directly around the philosophy of religion component of the new OCR GCE Religious Studies specifi cation. The comprehensive coverage and imaginative layout of the fi rst edition have been very well received by teachers. This new edition refl ects the topics and structure of the new specifi cation in an enjoyable student-friendly fashion.
The second edition includes a new chapter on religion and science, and the companion website has been enhanced to include more support material for teachers.
http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468244
September 2008: 246x189: 464ppPb: 978-0-415-46824-4: £16.99
NEW
2nd Edition
2nd Edition
Companion Website
Both books are fully supported by a Companion Website. These websites will offer a full range of supporting material and resources for teachers and students including:
• additional material on key topics
• information about the syllabus
• links to other resources
• feedback/comments form
• links to related titles
• inspection copy request form
www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468244www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468251
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OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2: Selected Contents
September 2008: 246x189: 464ppPb: 978-0-415-46824-4: £16.99 http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468244
OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2: Selected Contents
June 2008: 246x189: 336ppPb: 978-0-415-46825-1: £16.99 http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468251
NEW
NEW
How to Use This Book. Acknowledgements. Answering Exam Style Questions
PART 1: The God of Philosophy 1. Plato and Philosophy of Religion 2. Aristotle and Philosophy of Religion
PART 2: The God of Faith 3. God the Creator 4. The Goodness of God Summary Parts 1 and 2: The Gods of Faith and Philosophy Compared
PART 3: The Existence of God 5. The Ontological Argument 6. The Cosmological Argument 7. The Teleological Argument 8. The Moral Argument
PART 4: Challenges to the Belief in God 9. The Problem of Evil 10. Religion and Science
PART 5: The Nature of Religious Belief 11. Life After Death 12. Revelation and Holy Scripture 13. Miracles 14. Religious Language
How to Use This Book. Answering Exam Style Questions. Timeline
PART 1: AS Ethics 1. What is Ethics? 2. Moral Absolutism and Moral Relativism 3. Natural Moral Law 4. Kant 5. Utilitarianism 6. Religious Ethics – Christian Ethics 7. Medical Ethics 1 – Abortion and the Right to a Child 8. Medical Ethics 2 – Euthanasia and the Right to Life 9. Medical Ethics 3 – Genetic Engineering and Embryo Research 10. War and Peace
PART 2: A2 Ethics11. Meta-Ethics – The Language of Ethics 12. Virtue Ethics 13. Free Will and Determinism 14. Conscience 15. Environmental and Business Ethics 16. Sexual Ethics
www.routledge.com/religion www.routledge.com/religion
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AS and A2 from
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OCR Religious Ethics for AS and A2
Jill Oliphant Edited by Jon MayledPraise for 1st Edition:
“A long overdue Ethics text book for students which meets the criteria for the OCR specifi cation in an interesting and clear way; it will provide valuable support for independent learning.” - J. Anderson, Head of Religious Studies, Wyedean School, Gloucestershire
Religious Ethics for AS and A2 is a textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses, structured directly around the OCR GCE Religious Studies specifi cation. The book covers all the topics of the Religious Ethics component of the A-level specifi cation in an enjoyable and student-friendly fashion.
This new edition has been restructured for the new specifi cation and now includes a section on business ethics. The companion website has been enhanced to include more support material for teachers.
http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468251
September 2008: 246x189: 336ppPb: 978-0-415-46825-1: £16.99
NEW
www.routledge.com/religion
OCR Religious Studies for AS and A2 from Routledge
Each book includes chapters containing:
• a list of key issues, to introduce students to the topic
• OCR Syllabus checklist
• explanations of key terminology
• discussion questions, thought points and activities
• exam-style practice questions
• self-test review questions
• helpful summaries
• annotated further reading suggestions.
Each book comes complete with lively illustrations, a comprehensive glossary and full bibliography to help students get to grips with the OCR requirements.
PLATO’S THEORY OF FORMS
The starter exercises drew your attention to the difference between ideas
and ideas expressed in reality. For example, you can recognise a cat because
you know what a cat is, i.e. you have an idea of what a cat is. For Plato this
distinction is crucial. First, the knowledge of what a cat is precedes you
actually seeing a cat. Secondly, Plato suggests that the world we live in is a
world of appearances but the real world is a world of ideas that he calls
Forms.
The world we live in is a world of appearances, but it is not the most
important or real world. In the material world things that exist like trees and
plants will all die. What makes a tree a tree however, or a cat a cat, is the
way in which it corresponds to the Form of tree or cat.
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the god of philosophy6
THE OCR CHECKLIST
In this chapter you will cover the following aspects of the OCR
specification:
1 Plato’s theory of Forms, focusing on:
(a) What a Form is;
(b) What is meant by the Form of the Good;
(c) The relationship between Forms and the physical world;
(d) Strengths and weaknesses of Plato’s theory of Forms;
(e) Plato’s analogy of the Cave.
2 Plato’s concept of the soul
(a) What a soul is;
(b) The relationship between the soul and the body in Plato’s
philosophy;
(c) The relationship between the soul and the Forms.
�Plato the man
(428–347 BCE)
Plato is one of the most
famous philosophers in
history. His writings
influenced the development
of philosophy throughout
the Western world and a
large number of his books
survive. Plato was taught
by the first great Western
Philosopher, Socrates.
Most of the books he wrote
have Socrates as the
leading character in them.
His early books are about
Socrates’ philosophy but
the later ones present
arguments from Plato’s
own thinking.
Plato wrote about
many issues ranging from
the existence of the soul
and the nature of beauty,
to who should run a
government. Plato
founded his own school
of philosophy, like a
University, called the
Academia from which we
get the word Academy in
English. He died in 347
BCE, aged 81.
religious-sample 12/9
/06 14:21 Page 6
OCR Syllabus checklists
These new editions have been fully updated in line with the new OCR GCE Religious Studies specifi cation and are ideal textbooks to give your students every chance of exam success.
The starter exercises drew your attention to the difference between ideas
and ideas expressed in reality. For example, you can recognise a cat because
you know what a cat is, i.e. you have an idea of what a cat is. For Plato this
distinction is crucial. First, the knowledge of what a cat is precedes you
actually seeing a cat. Secondly, Plato suggests that the world we live in is a
is a world of ideas that he calls
The world we live in is a world of appearances, but it is not the most
important or real world. In the material world things that exist like trees and
plants will all die. What makes a tree a tree however, or a cat a cat, is the
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In this chapter you will cover the following aspects of the OCR
(b) The relationship between the soul and the body in Plato’s
GCE Religious Studies specifi cation and are ideal textbooks to give your When we are born we have a dim recollection of what Forms are, because
Plato argues that we have an immortal soul that observed the Forms beforebeing incarnated in a body. However, in the body the memories of the soulare only dim. Plato’s evidence for this claim was the fact that people canhave a basic understanding of something like Truth, Justice or Beautywithout being taught it. Instinctively we can know something is beautifuleven if we do not know about the Form of Beauty. This leads Plato to claimthat humans have an immortal soul. The philosopher is someone who triesto escape the world of appearances and with their mind see the Forms thatlie behind appearances. Because the true philosopher has knowledge of theForms Plato argues that they are the most suitable people to rule society.
Education, according to Plato, is a matter of remembering and recalling the world of Forms; knowledge of which is in the soul but hidden by theincarnation of the soul in the body. For Plato people do not learn new things;
123456789101112
13141516
the god of philosophy8
The Soul
For more information, seethe section later in thechapter about the soul.
Thought PointJustice and Injustice
All the beliefs listed below are unjust according to many people today,yet they are all examples of practices that have occurred or areoccurring in different parts of the world today. 1 Is this behaviour just or unjust?2 Is there a single concept of justice that all these actions break?
(Also, can you identify a culture where this behaviour is seen to bejust?)
A Discriminating against people on the grounds of race;B Keeping women at home and not educating them;C Discriminating against homosexual people;E Stoning to death rebellious sons who refuse to obey their
parents;F Sterilizing people who are mildly mentally disabled.
Form
By ‘Form’ Plato meant the ideaof something. For example, ifyou say ‘Look! There’s a cat’,you have some idea of what acat is and you can recogniselots of different types of cats.All the different types of catsembody the Form of a cat;some set of characteristics thatresemble the idea of what a catis. The Form of anything is not
physical but is the eternal ideaof what a thing is.
Soul
The immortal, non-physical,eternal part of a human beingthat is the centre of a person’sidentity and character.
religious-sample 12/9/06 14:21 Page 8
Thought Points
Explanations of Key Terms and Concepts
About the authorsMatthew Taylor is Head of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Colchester County High School for Girls. He was previously Head of Religious Studies and Philosophy at St Gregory the Great Roman Catholic V. A. School in Oxford.
Jill Oliphant teaches Religious Studies at Angley School, Cranbrook, Kent. She is also an experienced examiner.
Jon Mayled is a chief examiner. He is author and editor of many popular books for the GCSE syllabus.
OCR Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2
Matthew TaylorEdited by Jon MayledPraise for 1st Edition:
“This is an excellent book with appropriate and comprehensive material for the specifi cation. It has a clear layout which makes it ‘pupil friendly’. I shall certainly use it with my AS and A2 students.” - Geraldine Crouch, Head of Religious Studies, St. Lawrence College, Ramsgate, Kent
Philosophy of Religion for AS and A2 is a textbook for students of Advanced Subsidiary or Advanced Level courses, structured directly around the philosophy of religion component of the new OCR GCE Religious Studies specifi cation. The comprehensive coverage and imaginative layout of the fi rst edition have been very well received by teachers. This new edition refl ects the topics and structure of the new specifi cation in an enjoyable student-friendly fashion.
The second edition includes a new chapter on religion and science, and the companion website has been enhanced to include more support material for teachers.
http://www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468244
Semptember 2008: 246x189: 464ppPb: 978-0-415-46824-4: £16.99
NEW
Companion Website
Both books are fully supported by a Companion Website. These websites will offer a full range of supporting material and resources for teachers and students including:
• additional material on key topics
• information about the syllabus
• links to other resources
• feedback/comments form
• links to related titles
• inspection copy request form
www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468244www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415468251
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