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How should I structure my A-level religious studies essay?

In essence the essay should follow some sort of a generic structure broken down into three parts. The first part will be your introduction and should summarise the key points of your discussion. The DISC ...

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Explain the approach to proving the existence of God taken by Anselm’s ontological argument.

Anselm's Ontological argument, ontological meaning concerned with being or existence, makes an argument for the existence of God based not on a posteriori reasoning like other arguments for the existence ...

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How do I answer an ethics questions without just saying my own views?

Depending on what you've been taught it is great to understand the basic beliefs of religions you have learnt about.For example - Christianity and Judaism. In an ethics question if you have a summary of t...

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"The criticisms of the Ontological Argument are very strong" Assess this claim.

The criticisms of the ontological argument vary immensely in strength. It can be argued that the strongest criticisms come from Aquinas, Descartes and Hume in their criticisms of the definition of God. Th...

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(40 marks) How should I structure my answer to the essay “Does natural law provide a helpful method of moral decision-making?”

Begin with an introduction. What is natural law? (An absolutist theory that argues that nature provides unambiguous answers to moral dilemmas) who initially proposed it? (Aquinas, 13th century theol...

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