• Deontological: natural moral law and the principle of double effect with reference to Aquinas; proportionalism.
• Teleological: situation ethics with reference to Fletcher.
• Character based: virtue ethics with reference to Aristotle.
• The differing approaches taken to moral decision making by these ethical theories.
• Their application to the issues of theft and lying.
• The strengths and weaknesses of these ways of making moral decisions.

• ​Issues of human life and death:

• embryo research; cloning; ‘designer’ babies

• abortion

• voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide

• capital punishment.

• Issues of non-human life and death:

• use of animals as food; intensive farming

• use of animals in scientific procedures; cloning

• blood sports

• animals as a source of organs for transplants.

Dialogue: The Euthyphro Dilemma, Edition 30

Dialogue: In Defence of Divine Commands, Edition 37

Dialogue: Is There a Natural Law?, Edition 5

Dialogue: Proportionalism as an approach to Ethics, Edition 6

Dialogue: Abortion: A Moral Controversy, Edition 8

Dialogue: Natural Law, Edition 12

Dialogue: Thomas Aquinas on Happiness, Edition 35

Dialogue: Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law, Edition 36

Dialogue: Natural Law, Edition 42

Dialogue: Natural Law, Edition 59

R4 In Our Time Podcast: St Thomas Aquinas 

Dialogue: Situation Ethics: Decent or Indecent Proposal?, Edition 17

Dialogue: Who’s afraid of Relativism?, Edition 28

Dialogue: Who’s to judge? Ethical Relativism versus Objectivism, Edition 23

Dialogue: The Puzzle of Relativism, Edition 38

Dialogue: Situation Ethics, Edition 47

The Tablet: 8 Apr 2023 ‘Breaking the golden chain’ – J Keown

The Tablet: 13 Jan 2024 ‘No laughing matter’ – J Hughes

The Tablet: 9 Mar 2024 ‘The sharp end’ – S Olszowski

The Tablet: 12 Oct 2024 ‘A life or death question’ – A Hawkins

The Tablet: 26 Oct 2024 ‘The elementary sin?’ – J Hughes

The Tablet: 16 Nov 2024 ‘Lessons from inside’ – D Shipley

Dialogue: The Ethics of Killing, Edition 28

Dialogue: Moral Philosophies and Christian Principles in Medical Ethics, Edition 21

Dialogue: Is Simulated Killing Wrong?, Edition 56

Dialogue: Killing Mary to Save Jodie, Edition 16

Dialogue: Suicide, Edition 22 Dialogue: For the Christian, can euthanasia ever be a good death?, Edition 3

Dialogue: Caring to the End, Edition 7

Dialogue: The Dilemma of Life or Death: The Collapse of the Traditional Ethic, Edition 7

Dialogue: Living and Dying Well: A Response to Peter Singer, Edition 9

Dialogue: Ought Euthanasia to be Allowed?, Edition 10

Dialogue: Euthanasia, Edition 17

Dialogue: Withdrawing Life Support from Patients in a Persistent Vegetative State, Edition 27

Dialogue: Euthanasia: Conflicting Positions, Edition 23

Dialogue: Assisted Dying, Edition 42

Dialogue: Assisted Suicide, Edition 43

Dialogue: The Euthanasia Debate, Edition 47