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AQA A-Level Religious Studies 7062
Arguments for the Existence of God
Evil and Suffering
Religious Language
Self and Life After Death
Religious Experience
Ethical Theories
Issues of Human Life and Death
Meta Ethics
Free Will and Moral Responsibility
Conscience
Bentham and Kant
Issues of Animal Life and Death
Buddhism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityBuddhism
Buddhism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion, Gender and SexualityBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and ScienceBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and SecularisationBuddhism
Buddhism: Religion and Religious PluralismBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with PhilosophyBuddhism
Buddhism: Dialogue with EthicsBuddhism
Buddhism: God and Ultimate RealityBuddhism
Buddhism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeBuddhism
Buddhism: Expression of Religious IdentityBuddhism
Christianity: God and Ultimate RealityChristianity
Christianity: Self, Death and the AfterlifeChristianity
Christianity: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesChristianity
Christianity: Religion, Gender and SexualityChristianity
Christianity: Religion and ScienceChristianity
Christianity: Religion and SecularisationChristianity
Christianity: Religion and Religious PluralismChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with PhilosophyChristianity
Christianity: Dialogue with EthicsChristianity
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Christianity: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityChristianity
Christianity: Expression of Religious IdentityChristianity
Hinduism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityHinduism
Hinduism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesHinduism
Hinduism: Religion, Gender and SexualityHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and ScienceHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and SecularisationHinduism
Hinduism: Religion and Religious PluralismHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with PhilosophyHinduism
Hinduism: Dialogue with EthicsHinduism
Hinduism: God and Ultimate RealityHinduism
Hinduism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeHinduism
Hinduism: Expression of Religious IdentityHinduism
Islam: God and Ultimate RealityIslam
Islam: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesIslam
Islam: Religion, Gender and SexualityIslam
Islam: Religion and ScienceIslam
Islam: Religion and SecularisationIslam
Islam: Religion and Religious PluralismIslam
Islam: Dialogue with PhilosophyIslam
Islam: Dialogue with EthicsIslam
Islam: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityIslam
Islam: Self, Death and the AfterlifeIslam
Islam: Expression of Religious IdentityIslam
Judaism: God and Ultimate RealityJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with PhilosophyJudaism
Judaism: Religion and ScienceJudaism
Judaism: Religion and SecularisationJudaism
Judaism: Religion and Religious PluralismJudaism
Judaism: Dialogue with EthicsJudaism
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Judaism: Religion, Gender and SexualityJudaism
Judaism: Expression of Religious IdentityJudaism
Judaism: Sources of Wisdom and AuthorityJudaism
Judaism: Self, Death and the AfterlifeJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral PrinciplesJudaism
Judaism: Good Conduct and Key Moral Principles
Free Will, Responsibility and Pikuach Nephesh
- 5 things to know
- Component 2
Overview
Recall questions on the rejection of original sin, the yetzer hatov and yetzer hara, Maimonides on free will, teshuvah, the limits of responsibility, and the principle, source and applications of pikuach nephesh.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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Key term
What limits does Judaism place on moral responsibility?
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From which verse do the rabbis derive pikuach nephesh?
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Give two everyday applications of pikuach nephesh.
Process
Why is interpretation needed, what does pikuach nephesh override, and what does it not?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
Why does Judaism reject the idea that human beings are born sinful?
Model answer
A person is created with the capacity for both good and evil and is held responsible for the choice, so no inherited guilt is assumed.
- 2
Explain the terms yetzer hatov and yetzer hara.
Model answer
The inclination towards good and the inclination towards evil, both present in every person.
- 3
Is the yetzer hara purely negative?
Model answer
No, the rabbis taught that the self-seeking drive also produces ambition, enterprise and family life, so it must be directed rather than destroyed.
- 4
How does the Torah state the reality of human choice?
Model answer
In Deuteronomy it sets life and death before the people and calls on them to choose life.
- 5
What did Maimonides teach about free will?
Model answer
He held it to be a foundation of the Torah, since commandment, reward and punishment would all be meaningless without it.
- 6
Define teshuvah.
Model answer
Repentance, the turning back to God that involves recognising the wrong, regretting it, confessing it and resolving not to repeat it.
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