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A-Level RS - Transition
A-Level RS - Transition
Here are a range of activities, tasks and clips that will prepare you for the A-Level Philosophy, Ethics and RS course.
A-Level Overview.pdfSpecification Overview
Key Thinker/s
Key Thinker/s
Who? What? Where? When?
Philoso'MEN
Philoso'MEN
Philoso'WOMEN
Philoso'WOMEN
Film'osophy
Film'osophy
Here are a selection of films that you might like to watch to further develop your knowledge, understanding and curiosity of key issues, topics and thinkers involved within A-Level Philosophy, Ethics and RS.
The Good Place is on Netflix - The Little Buddha can be found on YouTube. Ask family or friends if they have The Matrix or The Truman Show on DVD or try other (legal) streaming services.
Note: Age restrictions may apply.
THE MATRIX (1999)
THE MATRIX (1999)
THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998)
THE TRUMAN SHOW (1998)
THE GOOD PLACE (2016)
THE GOOD PLACE (2016)
THE LITTLE BUDDHA (1993)
THE LITTLE BUDDHA (1993)
TED Talk/s
TED Talk/s
The images below will take you to a selection of TED Talks that you can watch to develop your knowledge, understanding and curiosity of key issues, topics and thinkers involved within A-Level Philosophy, Ethics and RS.
Note: You can either use the Specification to help select one that is connected to our course, +/or any topic that you fancy.
On: Philosophy
On: Philosophy
On: Religion
On: Religion
Philoso'Pod
Philoso'Pod
Here are a selection of Podcasts that you might like to listen to, to further develop your knowledge, understanding and curiosity of key issues, topics and thinkers involved within A-Level Philosophy, Ethics and RS.
Note: You can either use the Specification to help select one that is connected to our course, +/or any topic that you fancy.
What's in the news?
What's in the news?
Keep an eye on the news - local, national and global - what philosophical, religious and ethical issues are making the headlines? When you watch the news or read a news article try to think about the event or topic from different perspectives and consider the philosophical and ethical issues being raised by this event.
Philoso'Read
Philoso'Read
Click on the images to be taken to a selection of Books, Journals + Articles that you can read to further develop your knowledge, understanding and curiosity of key issues, topics and thinkers involved within the course. Guille-Alles has a decent selection of books on philosophy, ethics and Buddhism - and the novel Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder is a great soft introduction to philosophy for novel-lovers.
Other suggested reading -
Sophie's World - Jostein Gaarder
The Puzzle of God, The Puzzle of Ethics, The Puzzle of Christianity & The Puzzle of Evil - Peter Vardy
The Four Horsemen - Dawkins, Dennett, Harris & Hitchens
The Thinkers Guide to God - Peter Vardy & Julie Arliss
Without Buddha I could not be a Christian - Paul Knitter
Living Buddha, Living Christ - Thich Nhat Hanh
Think - Simon Blackburn
The Philosophy Files, The Philosophy Gym - Stephen Law
THUNK'ful Activities
THUNK'ful Activities
Here are a range of activities to get you thinking and to also test and assess what you already think you know.
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