Revise Philosophy for AS Level

Revise Philosophy for AS Level Michael Lacewing, Jean-Marc Pascal About this book Contents About the Authors Buy Online

About this book
Revise Philosophy for AS Level is the definitive revision guide for students of the Advanced Subsidiary level syllabus. Following the AQA sylllabus, it helps students revise using past exam questions, examiner's reports, and tips on revision for the examination. Also included are a helpful glossary and annotated further reading. It covers all three units of the AS Level syllabus:

• Unit 1: Theory of Knowledge
• Unit 2: Moral Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion
• Unit 3: Texts.

The four set texts are discussed; Plato’s The Republic, Descartes Meditations, Marx and Engels’ The German Ideology and Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism

Essential reading for all students of AS Level Philosophy, it is an ideal companion to the textbook Philosophy for AS and A2, also published by Routledge.

Contents

Introduction
Ch. 1. Unit 1 Theory of Knowledge
Ch. 2. Unit 2 Moral Philosophy
Ch. 3. Unit 2 Philosophy of Religion
Ch. 4. Unit 3 Plato's Republic
Ch. 5. Unit 3 Descartes' Meditations
Ch. 6. Unit 3 Marx & Engels' The German Ideology (Jean-Marc Pascal)
Ch. 7. Unit 3 Sartre's Existentialism and Humanism (Jean-Marc Pascal)
Ch. 8. Preparing for the Exam
Glossary

About the Authors

Michael Lacewing is a lecturer in philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London and a co-author of the textbook Philosophy for AS and A2 (Routledge, 2004), for which he wrote the introduction and the chapters on moral philosophy and on exam revision and technique. He founded the company A Level Philosophy in 2003, which regularly organizes conferences for students and INSET days for teachers. Its website, which hosts the most comprehensive archive of resources for A level philosophy in the UK, receives over 1,200 hits per month. He is also a consultant on philosophy at A level for the British Philosophical Association.