Philosophy · AQA 7062 · 26 units

Intervention

One page per unit. Place yourself by the level your last two timed answers reached, then work the four moves of your tier: a 10- and 15-mark question answered at four levels side by side, with the difference annotated; a drill for each move; Coach Owl on every written answer; the six-week cycle. Nothing you write leaves your device.

Bridge · E–D → CSay it precisely · One point, all the way · Answer the question asked · Always take a side.
Build · C → BDevelop, don't list · Scholars as evidence, not decoration · Counter, then reply · A conclusion that follows.
Summit · B → A / A*Thesis and criterion from line one · The strongest form of both sides · Concede and limit · A verdict that survives its best objection.

Philosophy of religion

8 units · each with a 10- and 15-mark ladder.

Year 12 Philosophy of religion · Arguments for the existence of God: design

The design argument

Examine Paley's design argument for the existence of God.

'The design argument fails to prove the existence of God.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Philosophy of religion · The ontological argument

The ontological argument

Examine Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God.

'Kant's criticisms show that the ontological argument fails.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Philosophy of religion · The cosmological argument

The cosmological argument

Examine Aquinas' Third Way as an argument for the existence of God.

'The cosmological argument proves that God exists.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Philosophy of religion · Evil and suffering

Evil and suffering

Examine Hick's soul-making theodicy.

'The free will defence successfully solves the problem of evil.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Philosophy of religion · Religious experience

Religious experience

Examine Swinburne's principles of credulity and testimony.

'Psychological and physiological explanations have destroyed the claim that religious experiences are experiences of God.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Philosophy of religion · Religious language

Religious language

Examine the challenges to religious language from the verification and falsification principles.

'Religious language is not meaningful.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Philosophy of religion · Miracles

Miracles

Examine Hume's argument against belief in miracles.

'Hume's argument shows that belief in miracles is never justified.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Philosophy of religion · Self, death and the afterlife

Self, death and the afterlife (Philosophy)

Examine Hick's replica theory as an account of life after death.

'Hick's replica theory fails to show that life after death is possible.' Evaluate this claim.

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Ethics

8 units · each with a 10- and 15-mark ladder.

Year 12 Ethics · Natural moral law

Natural moral law

Examine Aquinas' natural moral law, with reference to the primary and secondary precepts.

'Proportionalism offers a more convincing approach to moral decision-making than Aquinas' natural moral law.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Ethics · Situation ethics

Situation ethics

Examine the main features of Fletcher's situation ethics.

'Situation ethics fails to provide a workable basis for Christian moral decision-making.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Ethics · Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics

Examine Aristotle's teaching on moral virtue and the doctrine of the mean.

'Virtue ethics fails to give any useful guidance on how to act.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Ethics · Applied ethics

Applied ethics

Examine how natural moral law may be applied to theft and lying.

'Situation ethics is the most successful ethical approach to euthanasia.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Ethics · Meta-ethics

Meta-ethics

Examine Moore's intuitionist view that 'good' is a simple, indefinable, non-natural property.

'Emotivism is a more convincing account of ethical language than intuitionism.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Ethics · Free will and moral responsibility

Free will and moral responsibility

Examine hard determinism and what it implies for moral responsibility.

'Compatibilism provides a convincing account of moral responsibility.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Ethics · Conscience

Conscience

Examine Aquinas's view of conscience.

'Secular explanations of conscience are more convincing than religious ones.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Ethics · Bentham and Kant

Bentham and Kant

Examine Bentham's act utilitarianism.

'Kant's ethical theory is more convincing than Bentham's act utilitarianism.' Evaluate this claim.

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Christianity

10 units · each with a 10- and 15-mark ladder.

Year 12 Christianity · Sources of wisdom and authority

Sources of wisdom and authority

Examine different Christian views about the authority of the Bible.

'Christians are justified in treating the Bible, rather than the Church, as their final authority.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Christianity · The nature of God

The nature of God (Christianity)

Examine the Christian doctrine of the Trinity.

'The doctrine of the Trinity is not a coherent account of one God.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Christianity · Self, death and the afterlife

Self, death and the afterlife (Christianity)

Examine different Christian views about resurrection.

'Christian belief in heaven and hell is only reasonable if they are understood as spiritual states rather than physical places.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Christianity · Good conduct and key moral principles

Good conduct and key moral principles

Examine Christian teaching on the relationship between faith and works in justification.

'Christians are justified in treating the sanctity of life as an absolute principle.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 12 Christianity · Expressions of religious identity

Expressions of religious identity

Examine different Christian understandings of the Eucharist.

'Only believer's baptism is a meaningful expression of Christian identity.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Christianity · Gender and sexuality

Gender and sexuality

Examine different Christian views about the ordination of women.

'Daphne Hampson is justified in concluding that Christianity is irredeemably sexist.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Christianity · Christianity and science

Christianity and science

Examine Polkinghorne's view of the relationship between science and Christianity.

'Scientific explanation leaves no reasonable place for belief in God.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Christianity · Christianity and science: genetic engineering

Christianity and science: genetic engineering

Examine Christian responses to the issues raised by genetic engineering.

'Christianity responds successfully to issues raised by genetic engineering.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Christianity · Christianity and secularisation

Christianity and secularisation

Examine the challenge that secularisation presents to Christianity.

'Secularisation has made Christianity irrelevant in Britain today.' Evaluate this claim.

Bridge · Build · Summit ↗Year 13 Christianity · Migration and religious pluralism

Migration and religious pluralism

Examine exclusivist and inclusivist Christian attitudes to other faiths.

'Hick's pluralism is a convincing Christian response to religious diversity.' Evaluate this claim.

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On paper. Every unit also has three printed editions of the Philosopher Companion — Bridge, Build and Summit — in the department's 06 Intervention folder on SharePoint (Teaching material › 06 Intervention). Ask your teacher for the edition of your tier.