Content and Exam Tips for OCR A Level Religious Studies
5. Significant Ideas
Significant ideas in religious and moral thought, through comparison of the works of two key scholars from the field of religion and ethics
Aquinas and Freud
Content
Aquinas’ theological approach
Freud’s psychological approach
Key Knowledge
details of this approach, including:
ratio (reason placed in every person as a result of being created in the image of God)
synderesis (inner principle directing a person towards good and away from evil)
conscientia (a person’s reason making moral judgements).
vincible ignorance (lack of knowledge for which a person is responsible)
invincible ignorance (lack of knowledge for which a person is not responsible)
details of this approach, including: o psychosexual development (early childhood awareness of libido)
id (instinctive impulses that seek satisfaction in pleasure)
ego (mediates between the id and the demands of social interaction)
super-ego (contradicts the id and working on internalised ideals from parents and society tries to make the ego behave morally)