Addresses the current CCEA Religious Ethics specification for GCE Religious Studies and covers Units AS 7 and A2 7.

Covers the foundations, principles and practice of ethics and its application in society and explores both religious and non-religious ethics, and compares/contrasts them.

Tasks and questions provided throughout. Includes material on other aspects of human experience.

Contents:

1 Deontological Approaches to Moral Decision Making

2 Teleological Approaches to Moral Decision Making

3 Life and Death Issues

4 Developments in Bioethics

5 Moral Theory

6 Global Rights (1): The Nature of Rights

7 Global Rights (2): Sexual Identity and Gender Justice

8 Global Issues (1): War and Peace

9 Global Issues (2): Justice, Law and Punishment

10 Synoptic Assessment: Conscience, Freedom and Tolerance

Bibliography

Glossary

Index