August 13, 2020
Every year students wait anxiously for A-Level grades that they think will define them forever. It may do for a day or two but after that it is only prologue. This year more than ever those grades are meaningless as you didn’t even get to sit the exam. The grade you receive is only a guess, an educated guess, but a guess nonetheless. You might have tried harder than expected. You might have buckled under the pressure. You might have...
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June 21, 2020
It’s been a couple of years since large sections of the media first started panicking about drill music, questioning if the genre’s often violent lyrics were contributing to knife crime in London – sometimes claiming outright that they were. For the youth workers helping young people navigate daily life, it was never that black and white. Instead Ciaran Thapar saw drill as an opportunity to meet young people on their own terms. “How can we use this undeniably organically popular...
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July 14, 2019
On a range of ethical issues, philosophy professors specializing in ethics have been found to behave no better than professors working in other areas of philosophy, or than non-philosophy professors. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that ethical reasoning is powerless to make people behave more ethically. Teachers of practical ethics have an obvious interest in the answer to that question. The answer should also matter to students thinking of taking a course in practical ethics. But the question also has...
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June 8, 2019
What you’ll learn Philosophy tackles questions and concepts that others take for granted. What is private property? What does it actually mean to say that one event causes another? When can a scientific theory become a scientific fact? Students reading philosophy can find themselves engaging with modern social and political concerns, while confronting questions of personal value systems, social critique and moral life. Philosophy may not have all the answers (for example, 2,000 years ago, Pontius Pilate was supposed to have...
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February 7, 2019
3) Assess the view that natural law is of no help with regard to the issue of euthanasia (40 marks) Aquinas natural law theory is thought of as absolute, in that it knows of no exceptions, however after looking at doctrine of double effect it can be shown that the theory can give inconsistent answers in the case of euthanasia. This inconsistency coupled with the foundation of a God given purpose limits the help that it can be with regards...
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