Eduqas A-Level Religious Studies Component 3 Teleological Ethics and Free Will overview quiz quiz

Duty

Utility

The natural law

Agape

Pragmatism, relativism, positivism, personalism

Intensity, duration, certainty and the extent of pleasure

Universal law, the ends, the kingdom of ends and duty

Synderesis, conscientia, practical reason and guilt

Hard determinism and libertarianism

Legalism and antinomianism

Act and rule utilitarianism

Sanctity and quality of life

Reason, will, duty, dignity, autonomy, law, ends

Faith, hope, love, justice, prudence, courage, temperance

Intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, extent

Pragmatism, relativism, positivism, personalism, agape, love and justice

Bentham is a strict deontologist, Mill a thoroughgoing consequentialist

Bentham rejects pleasure entirely, while Mill fully embraces it

Bentham is deeply religious, whereas Mill is wholly secular

Bentham is an act utilitarian, Mill a rule utilitarian

Sanctity of life versus quality of life

Act utilitarianism versus rule utilitarianism

Strict legalism versus pure antinomianism

Hard determinism versus soft compatibilism

That we possess genuine, fully unconstrained libertarian free will

That we can feel free while our choices are actually determined

That God eternally predestines the elect to salvation

That pleasure is the only thing that is good in itself

Humans possess a radical, completely unconditioned and wholly undetermined freedom of the will

Morality depends entirely on the revealed commands of God

Human behaviour is shaped entirely by conditioning, so freedom and dignity are illusions

All genuinely free choices are wholly uncaused

A settled disbelief in the existence of God

Acting purely from a sense of moral duty

Following the single most loving course of action that is genuinely available in the situation

Self-deception, denying our freedom by pretending our acts are fixed by our role or nature

Determinism and freedom are compatible: an act is free if it flows from the agent's own uncompelled desires

Free will is entirely a complete and total illusion with no real basis whatever in human nature or experience

Some of our choices are genuinely wholly uncaused by anything at all

Only God's eternal predestination ultimately determines all our acts

It flatly denies that any of our actions are caused by anything at all

It offers only a 'thin' freedom, since if our desires are caused we still could not have done otherwise

It wrongly makes the whole of morality depend entirely on the revealed commands of God and nothing else at all

It rejects the very idea of moral responsibility entirely and completely

God graciously predestines absolutely everyone, without exception, to final salvation

God predestines each individual person solely on the basis of the genuine faith that he foresees they will one day have

Before creation God unconditionally chooses some (the elect) for salvation and others (the reprobate) for damnation

Salvation is fully earned by performing enough good works

By flatly denying the very existence of original sin in humanity

By making a person's salvation depend entirely on the number of good works that they perform

By openly rejecting the authority and necessity of divine grace

By teaching that, after the Fall, humans are bound by sin and saved only by unmerited grace

God predestines on the basis of foreseen faith, so humans freely accept or reject grace

God predestines each and every person wholly unconditionally a long time before their birth

There is no salvation available to anyone at all

Every single person without exception is among the reprobate

It conclusively proves that God must exist

If no one could have done otherwise, then praise, blame, guilt and retributive punishment seem unjust

It makes absolutely everyone fully responsible for every single thing that ever happens anywhere at all

It denies that pleasure or happiness matters at all