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Hotlinks for Heinemann Advanced Religious Studies: Ethics and Religion |
Section 1: Skills
Ethics updates
More ethics updates
Powerpoint presentations and video resources on ethics and religion
BBC Ethics and Religion
Dictionary of philosophy
Links, timelines, history of Wwestern philosophy, dictionary of philosophy and philosophers.
Episteme Links
World Messenger
Information about the invasion of Iraq.
Section 2: Language
Third World Traveller
This is a website detailing magazine articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view about the state of democracy in the world and about the impact of transnational corporations, international trade and corporate media. Download or print the article off and then study its contents for (a) descriptive statements, (b) prescriptive statements, and (c) meta-ethical statements.
Section 3: Freedom?
Lecture notes on free will and determinism by Norman Swartz
Free will
Determinism
Dilemma of free will and determinism slideshow
Section 4: Is it all relative?
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Section 5: Religion and morality
The Internet Encyclopedia of Religion
Find out the views of (a) St Thomas Aquinas, (b) David Hume, and (c) William Ockham.
Section 6: Conscience
Nobel e-Museum
Find out more about the lives of some of the greatest men and women of the last 100 years.
Prisoners of conscience and the work of Amnesty International
Find out more about prisoners of conscience and the work of Amnesty International.
Section 7: Egoism
The common good and the causes of world poverty
Find out more about the common good and the causes of world poverty.
Section 8: Kantian ethics
Immanuel Kant
The Right to the Truth
Write an essay on some Kantian ideas on The Right to the Truth.
Section 9: Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism glossary
Utilitarianism
Writings by Peter Singer
Choose an article from 'Writings by Peter Singer' and analyse his views on ethics in the world today.
Section 10 Situation ethics
Fletcher's theory of situation Ethics
Explain Fletcher's theory of situation ethics and assess the strengths and weaknesses of his view using the following article on Coursework.info
Section 11: Virtue theory & social contract theory
The Bhopal Medical Appeal
Apply at least one of the cardinal virtues to the world's worst industrial accident at Bhopal. Use The Sambhavna Trust's 'The Bhopal Medical Appeal' for further information and write a report of (a) what happened at Bhopal, (b) the consequences of the accident, and (c) the action, or lack of it, by Union Carbide.
Global Issues That Affect Everyone
Examine why, how and where Rawl's principles of (a) a schedule of basic rights, and (b) equality of opportunity are being violated in the world today.
Section 12: Sexual ethics
The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
1. Browse the sections on abortion, homosexuality, contraception, masturbation, safe sex, bisexuality, and trans-sexuality.
2. Pick out any one topic.
3. Make a list of the conflicting arguments.
4. Try to apply a conservative viewpoint and a libertarian viewpoint to your topic
Section 13: Cloning
Welcome to the Future
Informative site on all things new and their ethical implications by Dr Patrick Dixon.
The Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
1. Browse the sections on (a) human cloning, and (b) comments by political groups and religious authorities on cloning.
2. Using the information given on the website, write an essay highlighting what different individuals and groups have to say about the ethical dimensions of cloning.
Humanist perspectives
Find out more about non-religious responses to ethical issues.
Church of Scotland's reports on cloning
The reports (a)commend the principle of the production of proteins of therapeutic value in the milk of genetically modified sheep and other farm animal, (b) oppose the application of animal cloning as a routine procedure in meat and milk production, and (c) express the strongest possible opposition to human cloning and therefore urge a comprehensive international treaty to ban it worldwide.
Section 14: Environmental ethics & animal rights
What Chief Seattle really said
An exact reproduction of the famous speech.
His holiness the Dalai Lama
'Walden' by William Thoreau
Read Thoreau's classic.
Arctic ozone layer appears!
Kofi Annan's astonishing facts!
The Chernobyl Children's Project
Chernobyl Children Lifeline
Environmental News Network
Peter Singer
Environmental News Network
An excellent site with up-to date environmental issues, great links, news stories and much more.
Kyoto Protocol
Environmental News Network
Environmental News Network
Section 15: War and peace
Articles on the media, propaganda and war
Deontological pacifism and consequentialist pacifism
Explain (a) in your own words what these theories are, and (b) the ethical difficulties they pose.
The just war theory
Third World Traveller
Improve your understanding of the militarization of space and state-funded terrorism.
Genocide
War on Want
Find out the consequences of the Gulf War in 1991.
Modern warfare
Click on 'Most Recent' articles to read about modern warfare.
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