AQA • Religious Studies

Covers Aristotle's Virtue Ethics, eudaimonia, Nichomacheon ethics, virtues and the soul, how to perform virtues (the mean), the good life (theoria), and evaluation of Virtue Ethics as a theory.

Covers Fletcher's Situation Ethics, agapeic love, the four presuppositions, the six propositions, and evaluation of Situation Ethics as a theory.

Covers Aquinas' Natural Moral Law, the primary precepts, the secondary precepts, real and apparent goods, the doctrine of double effect, and evaluation of Natural Law as a theory.

Covers moral responsibility, determinism (scientific, psychological, theological), reductionism, libertarianism, compatibilism (Hume), reward and punishment. Includes evaluation points for all approaches - useful for essays!

Covers Ayer's verification principle (& logical positivism), Popper's falsification principle, Hick's eschatological verification, Hare's bliks, Wittgenstein's language games, Aquinas - religious language as analogical (attribution and proportionality), the Via Negativa, Tillich - religious language as symbolic. Includes evaluation/argument points for all approaches to religious language - great for essays!

Covers why religious experiences are hard to prove, scientific challenge to religious experience (Freud, temporal lobe epilepsy, neurotheology, drugs), Swineburne's principles of testimony and credulity, the influence of religious experience, the value of religious experience for faith. Includes potential evaluation/argument points for use in essays.

Covers realist and anti-realist accounts of miracles (Tillich, Holland), Hume's critiques of miracles, Wiles' critiques of miracles, comparison of Hume vs Wiles, significance of realist and anti-realist accounts of miracles for religion. Includes potential evaluation/argument points for each topic.

Covers Paley's Design argument (and Hume's criticisms), the Ontological argument (Anselm, Kant's criticisms, Gaunilo's criticisms, Descartes' argument), the Cosmological argument (Aquinas, Russell & Hume's criticisms). Includes for each argument its status as a proof and value for religious faith - useful for evaluation questions.

These slides contain everything you need to know about Bentham and Kant for your A level AQA paper. It contains a full summary of the textbook and includes quotes, key content and points for evaluation for your 15 mark questions. These notes were used last year (2024) to get a high grade A. It is written in a casual and clear way so you don't have to wade through the dense writing in the textbook. The content is structured in slides, and spaced out so that reading and memorisation is easy.

Notes covering the entirety of AQA A level RS Paper One. Achieved grade A*. Complete revision notes tailored to specification. Also some question plans/ example answers Notes for: Arguments for the existence of God Evil and suffering Religious experience Religious language Miracles Self and life after death. Ethical theories Issues of human life and death Issues of animal life and death Introduction to meta ethics Free will and moral responsibility Conscience Bentham and Kant.