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Aquinas’ Virtues and Goods Resource Pack

Make teaching these tricky Religion and Ethics
topics straightforward with this complete, ready-to-use pack!

What’s included:

One PowerPoint that covers:

• The need for humans to be more God-like by developing the three revealed virtues (faith, hope and charity) and four cardinal virtues (fortitude, temperance, prudence and justice).

• Aquinas’ definition of different types of acts and goods.

• Internal acts (the intention of the moral agent when carrying out an action) and external acts (the actions of a moral agent).

• Real goods (correctly reasoned goods that help the moral agent achieve their telos) and apparent goods (wrongly reasoned goods that don’t help the moral agent achieve their God given purpose).

• The Principle of Double Effect.

• Sample Essay Questions

• Exemplar Essays

• Student writing framework: helps students structure exam-style responses.

• Completed exemplar answers: perfect for modelling, teacher reference, or feedback.

Key Features:

• Clear, engaging slides that break down complex concepts step by step.
• Ready-made structure saves hours of planning.
• Fully adaptable to different exam boards (based on Eduqas Philosophy of Religion and Religion and Ethics).
• Supports students with scaffolding and model answers.
• This resource gives you everything you need to teach, explain, and assess these challenging topics with confidence — whether you’re introducing them for the first time or revising before exams.