Philosopy- improved
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Decks in class (65)
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1.1 Ancient philosphical influences7
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1.2 Plato's understanding of reality11
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1.3 Plato's forms0
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1.4 Asessing Plato on the forms0
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1.5 Aristotles understanding of reality0
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1.6 Aristotle's prime mover0
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1.7 Asessing Aristotles views0
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1.8 Plato versus Aristotle - reason and experience0
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2.1 Soul, mind and body0
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2.2 Plato's view of the soul0
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2.3 Aristotle's view of the body and soul0
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2.4 Descartes and substance dualism0
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2.5 Materialism0
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2.6 Evaluating dualism0
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2.7 Evaluating materialism0
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3.1 Arguments based on observation0
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3.2 Aquinas' teleological argument: the fifth way0
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3.3 Paley's teleological argument0
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3.4 The cosmological argument: Aquinas' first three ways0
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3.5 Hume's challenges to the arguments from observation0
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3.6 The challenge of evolution0
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3.7 Logical fallacies0
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4.1 Arguments based on reason0
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4.2 Anselm's ontological argument0
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4.3 Gaunilo versus Anselm0
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4.4 Kant's criticisms0
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4.5 Assessing th e ontological argument0
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4.6 Comparing a priori and a posteriori arguments0
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5.1 Religious experience0
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5.2 William James0
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5.3 Mystical experiences0
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5.4 Conversion experiences0
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5.5 The case for religious experience0
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5.6 Do religious experiences have a pyschological or physiological explanation?0
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5.7 Corporate experiences; are they more reliable than individual exoeriences?0
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5.8 Religious experience as a basis for believing in God or a greater power0
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6.1 The problem of evil0
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6.2 The logical and evidential problems of evil0
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6.3 Augustine0
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6.4 Hick0
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6.5 Discussing the problem of evil0
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7.1 The nature or attributes of God0
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7.2 Omnipotence0
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7.3 Eternity0
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7.4 Omniscience0
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7.5 Omnibenevolence0
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7.6 Discussing the nature of God0
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7.7 Comparing Boethius, Anselm and Swinburne0
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8.1 Religious language0
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8.2 Explaining the apophatic way (via negativa)0
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8.3 The apophatic way assessed0
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8.4 The cataphatic way (via positiva)- Aquinas and analogy0
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8.5 The cataphatic way assessed0
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8.6 Tillich and symbolic language0
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8.7 Symbolic language assessed0
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9.1 Twentieth-century perspectives0
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9.2 The verification principle0
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9.3 Verificationism assessed0
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9.4 The falsification symposium0
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9.5 Assessing the views presented in the falsification symposium0
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9.6 Wittgenstein and language games0
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9.7 Wittgenstein assessed0
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General questions109
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Key words0
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Philosophy full0
