WJEC/Eduqas Religious Studies for A Level & AS Key Thinkers: Ethics

Welsh Language Edition. An essential companion to help students master one of the most important areas of their Religious Studies course in Ethics: knowing the key thinkers.

- Provides an overview of each thinker's life and their ideas, with key dates, social context and why they are important.

- Helps students understand the thinkers' main arguments and how they justified their approach to ethics, allowing students to evaluate the theories them for themselves.

- Exam guidance section in each chapter provides a focus for revision and includes advice on how different types of questions could be tackled.

- Encourages students to explore each area of scholarly knowledge required by the specification, from grasping key ideas to knowing how to best criticise a thinker's approach.

- Puts ideas and theories into contemporary contexts to help students build their evaluation skills.

- Timeline displaying an overview of the key dates for each thinker in relation to world events.

- Key thinkers covered include Thomas Aquinas, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hobbes and Jeremy Bentham.