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Philosophy and Ethics
A Level

What is Plato's Analogy of the Cave and its significance for philosophers?

With Plato’s analogy of the cave I find it is really useful to understand it visually, so I’m going to draw a diagram of the cave as I explain it. The useful thing about this is that when it comes to revi...

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Explain the cosmological argument

Three forms of the cosmological argument: from motion; from causation; form contingency. First two respectively run as follows: (1) everything we observe in the world is moving/has a cause; (2) nothing c...

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Explain the parable of the gardener.

One version is that which was developed by Antony Flew. The idea/essence of the story is as follows: Imagine two explorers come across a clearing in a forest (or wherever they are exploring), and they com...

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Explain, and critically assess, Bentham's (Classical) Utilitarianism

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Jeremy Bentham's Classical Utilitarianism is an ethical doctrine founded on the principle of utility - that that which promotes the most happiness or pleasure is the (morally) best ac...

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Explain the difference between the Irenaeus and Augustine theodicies (solution to the problem of the evil)?

Their understandings of natural evil is what differtentaites the Irenaeus and Augustine theodicies. Irenaeus believes that natural evil is necessary in the world so that we as humans have something to ove...

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