Issues of Animal Life and Death | AQA A-Level Religious Studies (7062)
Issues of Animal Life and Death
- 38 questions
- 3 subtopics
- Component 1 Section B: ethics and religion
- Component 1
The use of animals for food, in experiment and for sport, and how natural moral law, situation ethics and virtue ethics each assess it..
It covers natural Moral Law and Animals, applying the Three Theories to Animal Issues and assessing the Theories on Animal Ethics.
Sample questions from Issues of Animal Life and Death
Answer each one closed book first, then open the answer.
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Natural Moral Law and Animals
In the double effect analysis of intensive farming, what is identified as the bad effect?
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Animal suffering. -
Natural Moral Law and Animals
Explain why natural moral law might permit intensive farming despite animal suffering.
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If the suffering is merely foreseen rather than intended, the action of food production is not intrinsically wrong, and the good of feeding humans is proportionate to the harm, then double effect may justify the practice. -
Applying the Three Theories to Animal Issues
How does natural moral law examine the use of animals in scientific procedures?
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It examines whether experimentation accords with the natural purposes of animals and whether the principle of double effect can justify harm for medical benefit. -
Applying the Three Theories to Animal Issues
What would situation ethics typically conclude about blood sports, and why?
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That causing suffering for entertainment does not serve agapeic love, though each situation must still be assessed individually. -
Assessing the Theories on Animal Ethics
Identify a weakness of situation ethics when addressing animal welfare issues.
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Its focus on human love (agape) may not adequately protect animal welfare and provides no consistent guidance for how animals should be treated. -
Assessing the Theories on Animal Ethics
What is the focus of a deontological approach to animal issues?
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Whether actions accord with moral rules or natural purposes, regardless of consequences for animals.
The 3 subtopics
One subtopic is one session. Work down the list.
| Subtopic | What it covers | Questions |
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| Natural Moral Law and Animals | Recall questions on why using animals for food is permitted and on applying double effect to intensive farming. | 8 |
| Applying the Three Theories to Animal Issues | Recall questions on the questions situation ethics and virtue ethics ask about using animals, and how all three theories treat intensive farming, experimentation, cloning, blood sports and xenotransplantation. | 17 |
| Assessing the Theories on Animal Ethics | Recall questions on the strengths of each theory and on the charge that natural moral law is anthropocentric. | 13 |
How the guide is worked
Answering a question from memory stores it far better than reading the answer again. The guide runs that as a fixed procedure on one subtopic at a time, about twenty minutes a session.
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Step 1 · Closed book
Cover the answers. Work through one subtopic and write down what you can. Leave blanks where you have nothing.
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Step 2 · Open book
Go back to the top. Read each printed answer and write it out in full, including the ones you had right.
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Step 3 · Closed book again
Same questions, same order, from memory. The gap between pass one and pass three is the session result.
Read the full method, the return schedule and the research behind it.
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