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IB Philosophy - Ethics Essay, optional theme for paper 2.

AQA A-level RELIGIOUS STUDIES 7062/2B Paper 2B Study of Religion and Dialogues: Christianity Version: 1.0 Final IB/M/Jun23/E3 7062/2B Monday 19 June 2023 Afternoon Time allowed: 3 hours Materials For this paper you must have: • an AQA 16-page answer book. Instructions • Use black ink or black ball-point pen. • Write the information required on the front of your answer book. The Paper Reference is 7062/2B. • Answer: – both two-part questions from Section A, and – one q...

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In Meditation 1, Descartes reasons that if a belief is false, then anything that rests on it is. a) implausible b) false c) improbable d) doubtful - correct answer d) doubtful In the last stage of Descartes' methodical skepticism he _______ that there is an evil demon intent on deceiving him. a) supposes b) doubts c) argues d) believes - correct answer a) supposes In Meditation 3, a key premise in Descartes' proof of God's existence is: a) If something can be doubted, then ...

Absolutism - correct answer the view that there are some types of activities that are strictly prohibited by morality, no matter what the specific facts are in a particular case. Killing a person is morally impermissible in "War and Massacre" (Thomas Nagel) Absurdism - correct answer the belief that human beings exist in a purposeless, chaotic universe. a fortiori - correct answer with greater reason, for a still stronger more certain reason agent causality - correct answer ...

Descartes - correct answer This philosopher employe the dream conjecture and the evil demon conjecture as a method to doubt his own existence Camus - correct answer "I see that man going back down with a heavy yet measured step toward the torment of which he will never know the end. That hour like a breathing-space which returns as surely as his suffering, that is the hour of consciousness Hobbes - correct answer This philosopher imagined that life in a state of nature would be "so...

A Priori - correct answer Before the fact. A Posteriori - correct answer After the fact. Absolutism - correct answer Ethics theory that there is only one absolute right, and one absolute wrong; One standard. Relativism - correct answer Denies the existence of a single, universally applicable moral standard. As the name implies, ethical relativists believe insist that the correct morality is relative to one's society: each society has its own morality, and an action of one perso...

Mind-Body Problem - correct answer The issue of how the mind is related to the brain and body Dualism - correct answer the presumption that mind and body are two distinct entities that interact Monism - correct answer the presumption that mind and body are different aspects of the same thing Ontological (Anselm) - correct answer St. Anselm claims to derive the existence of God from the concept of a being than which no greater can be conceived. St. Anselm reasoned that, if such a...