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Religious, Moral & Philosophical StudiesQ&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every Scotland Religious, Moral & Philosophical Studies syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
The Assignment
Morality and Belief
- Religion and Conflict: the causes of war, Just War theory and its conditions, pacifism, weapons of mass destruction and modern warfare, and religious and non-religious responses.2Q&A pairs
- Religion and Justice: the nature and causes of crime, the aims of punishment (retribution, deterrence, protection, reformation, reparation), capital punishment, and religious and non-religious responses.2Q&A pairs
- Religion and Relationships: attitudes to sex, marriage and cohabitation, divorce, contraception, and the family, from religious and non-religious viewpoints.2Q&A pairs
- Religion, Environment and Global Issues: stewardship and dominion, climate change and pollution, the use of resources, global poverty and inequality, and religious and non-religious responses.2Q&A pairs
- Religion, Medicine and the Human Body: the sanctity and quality of life, abortion, euthanasia and end-of-life care, embryo research and reproductive technology, and religious and non-religious responses.2Q&A pairs
Religious and Philosophical Questions
- Free Will and Determinism: hard determinism, libertarianism and compatibilism, the bearing on moral responsibility, and religious and non-religious responses.2Q&A pairs
- Miracles: definitions of a miracle, the religious significance of miracles, Hume's argument against believing in miracles, and religious and non-religious responses.2Q&A pairs
- Origins: religious creation accounts, scientific accounts (the Big Bang and evolution), and the relationship between science and religion (conflict, independence and dialogue).2Q&A pairs
- The Existence of God: the cosmological, teleological (design) and ontological arguments, the case from religious experience, and challenges from atheism and the problem of evil.2Q&A pairs
- The Problem of Evil and Suffering: the logical and evidential problems, the distinction between moral and natural evil, theodicies (free will, soul-making), and religious and non-religious responses.3Q&A pairs
World Religion
- The religion's beliefs about the nature of the divine, God or ultimate reality, and how those beliefs underpin its account of the human condition, the goal and the means.2Q&A pairs
- The religion's account of the goal: the ultimate aim of the spiritual life, what it consists of, and how it answers the problem set out in the human condition.2Q&A pairs
- The religion's analysis of the human condition: the fundamental problem facing human beings, its causes, and why the religion sees it as the starting point for the spiritual life.2Q&A pairs
- The religion's account of the means: the path, practices and disciplines by which a follower moves from the human condition towards the goal.2Q&A pairs