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ASSIGNMENT: Practise Kant on sexual ethics
Click on this link for a brilliant homework assignment testing your undertanding of how Kant’s categorical imperative might apply to issues on sexual ethics, by Paul Emecz. http://www.rsrevision.com/games/alevel/sex/kant_sex.html
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Article: the issues and the challenge around homosexuality
Follow this link trhough for an in depth tour of all the moral and practical issues surrounding homosexuality and same sex relations. http://www.religioustolerance.org/homosexu.htm
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Essay: Natural Law is the best approach to sexual ethics. Discuss
Natural Law is the most reliable approach when making decisions about pre-marital sex. Discuss. I found this essay very interesting because it shows how students fundamentally misunderstand – and so mishandle- natural law theory, imputing things to it which should never be imputed. A straw man in logic is one you set up in order…
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Extract 1: Aquinas on pre-marital sex and adultery
Adultery and other kinds of act contrary to the good of marriage In this extract from Stanford encyclopaedia the author argues that Aquinas sees sex within marriage as exclusive because it is the key to human and social flourishing (eudaimonia). The right kind of sex int he right place (marriage) builds an excellent life –…
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Workbook: Sexual Ethics
Workbook sexual ethics from Peped
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Case Study Powerpoint: Homosexuality And Discrimination
In 2008 a gay couple in a civil partnership book in to a Cornish Bed & Breakfast run according to traditional Christian values. The owners turn them away when the couple insist on sharing a room. The case goes to court. What are the rights and wrongs in this case? What does the judge (Judge…
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CASE STUDY Gay couples and Christian B & Bs
Case study homosexuality from Peped
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Weblinks – games and reading
Games For sicx games on sex and relationships (beat the examiner, throw the teacher, penalty shoot out, hoop shoot, walk the plank, en garde) go to: http://www.rsrevision.com/games/alevel/relationships.htm Exercise – fill in the diagram on conscience and sex (Aquinas – monogamy, Newman – homosexual sex, Butler – masturbation, Piaget – civil partnerships, Freud – consent, St…
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Article: Judith Butler – Bodies that matter
Judith Butler (1956- ) has written extensively on sex and gender, for example, in her book Bodies that Matter (1993). JUDITH BUTLER: On Gender and Sex JUDITH BUTLER questions the belief that certain male/female behaviours are natural, illustrating the ways that our learned performance of gendered behaviour (what we commonly associate with femininity and masculinity)…
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Extract 2:; Mill’s Essay on The Subjection of Women
CHAPTER 2 Essay on the subjection of women Mill was a passionate advocate of women’s rights, as equal partners in marriage and as equal in citizenship rights (to own property and to vote for example). His essay illustrates very well how marriage is a relative concept: it’s rules and expectations have varied widely over history.…