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Philosopy- improved (65 decks)

1.1 Ancient philosphical influences

1.2 Plato's understanding of reality

1.3 Plato's forms

1.4 Asessing Plato on the forms

1.5 Aristotles understanding of reality

1.6 Aristotle's prime mover

1.7 Asessing Aristotles views

1.8 Plato versus Aristotle - reason and experience

2.1 Soul, mind and body

2.2 Plato's view of the soul

2.3 Aristotle's view of the body and soul

2.4 Descartes and substance dualism

2.5 Materialism

2.6 Evaluating dualism

2.7 Evaluating materialism

3.1 Arguments based on observation

3.2 Aquinas' teleological argument: the fifth way

3.3 Paley's teleological argument

3.4 The cosmological argument: Aquinas' first three ways

3.5 Hume's challenges to the arguments from observation

3.6 The challenge of evolution

3.7 Logical fallacies

4.1 Arguments based on reason

4.2 Anselm's ontological argument

4.3 Gaunilo versus Anselm

4.4 Kant's criticisms

4.5 Assessing th e ontological argument

4.6 Comparing a priori and a posteriori arguments

5.1 Religious experience

5.2 William James

5.3 Mystical experiences

5.4 Conversion experiences

5.5 The case for religious experience

5.6 Do religious experiences have a pyschological or physiological explanation?

5.7 Corporate experiences; are they more reliable than individual exoeriences?

5.8 Religious experience as a basis for believing in God or a greater power

6.1 The problem of evil

6.2 The logical and evidential problems of evil

6.5 Discussing the problem of evil

7.1 The nature or attributes of God

7.2 Omnipotence

7.4 Omniscience

7.5 Omnibenevolence

7.6 Discussing the nature of God

7.7 Comparing Boethius, Anselm and Swinburne

8.1 Religious language

8.2 Explaining the apophatic way (via negativa)

8.3 The apophatic way assessed

8.4 The cataphatic way (via positiva)- Aquinas and analogy

8.5 The cataphatic way assessed

8.6 Tillich and symbolic language

8.7 Symbolic language assessed

9.1 Twentieth-century perspectives

9.2 The verification principle

9.3 Verificationism assessed

9.4 The falsification symposium

9.5 Assessing the views presented in the falsification symposium

9.6 Wittgenstein and language games

9.7 Wittgenstein assessed

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