Table of Contents

How to Use This Book
Answering examination questions
Timeline

Part 1 What is Ethics?
1 Meta ethics
2 Moral absolutism and moral relativism
3 Natural Law
4 Virtue Ethics

Part 2 AS Ethics
5 Kant and the Categorical Imperative
6 Utilitarianism
7 Religious Ethics and a comparison between them and the views of Kant and the Utilitarians
8 Medical ethics 1 – abortion and the right to a child
9 Medical ethics 2 – euthanasia and the right to life
10 Medical ethics 3 – engineering and embryo research

Part 3 A2 Ethics
11 Free will and determinism
12 The nature and role of the conscience as God-given and innate
13 Environmental ethics
14 Sex and relationships
15 War peace and justice

Part 4 Connections in Philosophy of Religion and Religious Ethics Bibliography