here are some excellent resources that you could use to aid you in your RMPS (Religious, Moral & Philosophical Studies) revision… especially when your getting bored of writing… First is utilitarian philosopher talking about the use of embryos on bigthink.com:
The above would be perfect for Int 2, this one might be better for those of you doing advanced or higher… Baroness Warnock on Radio 2 (I haven’t listened to this yet but hear it’s very useful):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY22aCImUtw
I haven’t watched this but imagine it would be useful for someone revising / interested in atheism, agnosticism and humanism….
Click on each picture for questions on each topic… write in light grey so people can think about answers before seeing yours….
post your findings below:
What is your step?
What does it mean (examples)?
How easy would it be for a lay Buddhist to put this into practice?
To post your opinion on the view you signed up for in class just press comment below. Usual options (initials) apply and make sure you make your answer balanced and clear. We can all use each others answers for revising for the NAB… If you want to see a bigger version of the slide above just click on it… [Make sure you submit your answer to the correct post]
Your Choices:
To post your opinion on the view you signed up for in class just press comment below. Usual options (initials) apply and make sure you make your answer balanced and clear. We can all use each others answers for revising for the NAB… If you want to see a bigger version of the slide above just click on it…
just a preview of some of the articles, written by S4 students…
that will be published in this year’s magazine, some of these are brilliant!
Here’s the picture of all the things we talked about in class. I thought I’d rubbed off the neck bit so don’t worry about that… The six things to look for are:
the hair
the mouth
the eyes
the ears
the third eye
the calm area around his awakened mind
Try and make sure the picture you find shows at least four of these.
Click the dropbox email which will take you to a page to upload you magazine articles. The passwaord is the three initials of your school in lower case. Have amazin holidays 🙂
Here’s the designs that your predecessors submitted for some inspiration. Remember the marking works as follows:
Hiyaaa and good luck for tomorrow’s exam. I’m sure you’re all going to do wonderfully. I was just doing a final check through the SQA arrangement documents (click for link) and I’ve included the bits you need to know here. You should find this list of outcomes pretty reassuring as we have covered far more than the minimum necessary.
On Buddhism:
On Ethics:
And on Philosophy of Religion:
And:
In terms of advice, read your booklet (available here), answer the question, stick to your timings and (almost) always give both sides in Analysis and Evaluation type questions…
And as always:
Explain why you think what you think.
Get a good sleep tonight and Good Luck! – I’ll see you outside tomorrow.
Click here if you are in group one: (Gp One)
Click here if you are in group two: (Gp Two)
Click here if you are in group three: (Gp Three)
[THIS MAY ALSO BE HELPFUL FOR THOSE OF YOU STUDYING IB PHILOSOPHY – THE CORE THEME]
One criticism often directed at Buddhism is a questioning of the relationship between the doctrines of atatman (no soul) and reincarnation. Some question the two teachings compatibility completely where others, more thoughtfully, question why I should seek to accumulate good karma in there is, in reality, no ‘me’.
The answer to this oft-repeated conundrum is, to my limited knowledge, most clearly explained in the conversations of Nagasena and King Milinda. The dialogue begins in the second chapter of Book II. The King jumps in at the deep end by asking it it is the same or another who be reincarnated and is frustrated by the monks answer that it is in fact neither of these suggestions.
To explain further Nagasena establishes that we have some sense that we are the same person as the younger version we remember ‘being’. To explain this idea he give the following example:
‘Suppose a man, O king, were to light a lamp, would it burn the night through?’ ‘Yes, it might do so.’ ‘Now, is it the same flame that burns in the first watch of the night, Sir, and in the second?’ ‘No.’ ‘Or the same that burns in the second watch and in the third?’ ‘No.’ ‘Then is there one lamp in the first watch, and another in the second, and another in the third?’ ‘No. The light comes from the same lamp all the night through.’
‘Just so, O king, is the continuity of a person or thing maintained. One comes into being, another passes away; and the rebirth is, as it were, simultaneous. Thus neither as the same nor as another does a man go on to the last phase of his self-consciousness’
Melinda then requests another example. And it is this one I find most helpful for it explains something of the nature of karma as action (the lit. translation), preserving the notions of cause and effect associated with samsara.
‘It is like milk, which when once taken from the cow, turns, after a lapse of time, first to curds, and then from curds to butter, and then from butter to ghee. Now would it be right to say that the milk was the same thing as the curds, or the butter, or the ghee?’‘Certainly not; but they are produced out of it.’‘Just so, O king, is the continuity of a person or thing maintained. One comes into being, another passes away; and the rebirth is, as it were, simultaneous. Thus neither as the same nor as another does a man go on to the last phase of his self-consciousness.’
In each of these processes the transition is slow; so slow it might not be noticed. That the process happens, however, in undeniable. Like this, we are changing all the time, we are continued from another self but we are not the same as that self. This is true throughout our wanderings of the wheel of life. Once reincarnated the change is identical. No more different, no less.
Same as all the others… click on it to get a bigger one.
Click to image above to download the revision summary for the Design / Teleological part of ther Philosophy of Religion section of your Int2 / Higher RMPS or Philosophy.
Click on the image above to download a ‘Use of Embryos’ summary for use revising for Int 2 or Higher RMPS (Medical Ethics).
Here are the Int 2 Revision Help slides as requested… Hope they’re useful…
Just a quick revision handout in the build up to the RMPS exam… use it over the holidays to make you notes as good as you can. Sorry we went through it so fast.
Click on the image to download the pdf file.
