Question 1
A surgeon could kill one healthy visitor and use his organs to save five patients. Which form of utilitarianism can most clearly reject this, and why?
A-level Religious Studies, section by section.
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What the course covers
For OCR H573: Philosophy of religion, Religion and ethics, and the Christianity option of Developments in religious thought.
Philosophy of religion
H573/01
- Philosophical language and thought
- The existence of God
- God and the world
- The nature of God
- Religious language: negative, analogical or symbolic
- Religious language: twentieth-century perspectives
Religion and ethics
H573/02
- Normative ethics: religious approaches
- Normative ethics: Kant and utilitarianism
- Applied ethics: euthanasia and business
- Ethical language: meta-ethics
- Significant ideas: conscience
- Developments in ethical thought: sexual ethics
Developments in Christian thought
H573/03
- Insight: human nature and the afterlife
- Foundations: knowing God and the person of Jesus
- Living: Christian moral principles and action
- Development: religious pluralism
- Society: gender
- Challenges: secularism and liberation theology