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Flashcards for SQA Advanced Higher Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies, with one subdeck for each area of study: philosophy of religion, medical ethics and religious experience. Each is split by topic in the course specification's order, with scholars, arguments and responses. Delete or suspend the optional area you do not study once the deck is yours.

Adding it gives you your own copy, with every subdeck below. Each card then comes back just before you would forget it, and every one you get right or wrong counts towards your mastery of its topic. You can delete or suspend the parts you are not studying once it is yours.

What is inside (47 subdecks)

  • Medical ethics230 cards
    • 1. Beginning of life99 cards
      • 1.1 Sanctity of life24 cards
      • 1.2 Treatment and use of embryos31 cards
      • 1.3 Family planning9 cards
      • 1.4 Abortion35 cards
    • 2. Organ transplants63 cards
      • 2.1 Organ procurement32 cards
      • 2.2 Organ allocation18 cards
      • 2.3 Religious responses to organ transplants13 cards
    • 3. End of life68 cards
      • 3.1 End-of-life care: medical and social17 cards
      • 3.2 Forms of euthanasia25 cards
      • 3.3 Assisted suicide26 cards
  • Philosophy of religion238 cards
    • 1. Cosmological argument and responses97 cards
      • 1.1 Aquinas: motion, causation and contingency25 cards
      • 1.2 Leibniz: the principle of sufficient reason19 cards
      • 1.3 The Kalam argument19 cards
      • 1.4 Philosophical responses to the cosmological argument16 cards
      • 1.5 Scientific and religious responses to the cosmological argument18 cards
    • 2. Teleological argument and responses70 cards
      • 2.1 Aquinas: argument from design9 cards
      • 2.2 Paley: the watch and the designer11 cards
      • 2.3 Intelligent design and fine-tuning19 cards
      • 2.4 Philosophical responses to the teleological argument14 cards
      • 2.5 Scientific and religious responses to the teleological argument17 cards
    • 3. Atheism and responses71 cards
      • 3.1 The improbability of God17 cards
      • 3.2 The incoherence of the God of classical theism19 cards
      • 3.3 The presumption of atheism15 cards
      • 3.4 Philosophical, scientific and religious responses to atheism20 cards
  • Religious experience223 cards
    • 1. Understandings of religious experience59 cards
      • 1.1 William James27 cards
      • 1.2 Rudolf Otto15 cards
      • 1.3 Richard Swinburne17 cards
    • 2. Faith perspectives100 cards
      • 2.1 Mystical experiences24 cards
      • 2.2 Conversion experiences18 cards
      • 2.3 Miracles25 cards
      • 2.4 Sensory experiences17 cards
      • 2.5 Personal relationship and meditative experiences16 cards
    • 3. Alternative accounts of religious experience64 cards
      • 3.1 Psychological accounts20 cards
      • 3.2 Scientific accounts18 cards
      • 3.3 Sociological accounts26 cards

Some of its cards

  • Who wrote Natural Theology in 1802?
    William Paley
  • What is classical theism?
    The traditional view that God is all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good, eternal and without a body
  • How does Hume define a miracle?
    A violation of the laws of nature, by a particular act of God or of some invisible agent
  • What does the sanctity of life mean?
    The belief that human life is holy and must not be taken
  • What is a mystical experience?
    A direct experience of union with, or knowledge of, the divine or ultimate reality
  • What is atheism?
    The belief that there is no God
  • What is assisted suicide?
    Helping someone to end their own life, for example by providing means
  • What does teleological mean?
    Concerned with purpose or end, from the Greek telos
  • What is the argument from intelligent design?
    That modern science reveals features of nature that are best explained by a designer
  • Which book of 1917 did Rudolf Otto write about the holy?
    The Idea of the Holy

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