My Revision Notes OCR A Level Religious Studies: Philosophy of Religion
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1 Ancient philosophical influences
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The philosophical views of Plato: Plato’s understanding of reality
1.3 Plato’s Forms
1.4 Assessing Plato on the Forms
1.5 Aristotle’s understanding of reality
1.6 Aristotle’s Prime Mover
1.7 Assessing Aristotle
1.8 Plato versus Aristotle – reason and experience
1.9 Summary and exam tips
2 Soul, mind and body
2.1 Introduction
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 – the case for the soul
2.7 Evaluating materialism – the case against the soul
2.8 Summary and exam tips
3 Arguments based on observation
3.1 Introduction
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 these arguments from observation
3.6 The challenge of evolution
3.7 Logical fallacies
3.8 Summary and exam tips
4 Arguments based on reason
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Anselm’s ontological argument
4.3 Gaunilo versus Anselm
4.4 Kant’s criticisms
4.5 Assessing the ontological argument
4.6 Comparing a priori and a posteriori arguments
4.7 Summary and exam tips
5 Religious experience
5.1 Introduction
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 psychological or physiological explanation?
5.7 Corporate experiences: are they more reliable than individual experiences?
5.8 Religious experience as a basis for believing in God or a greater power
5.9 Summary and exam tips
6 The problem of evil
6.1 Introduction
6.2 The logical and evidential problems of evil
6.3 Augustine
6.4 Hick
6.5 Discussing the problem of evil
6.6 Summary and exam tips
7 The nature or attributes of God
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Omnipotence
7.3 Eternity
7.4 Omniscience
7.5 (Omni)benevolence
7.6 Discussing the nature of God
7.7 Comparing Boethius, Anselm and Swinburne
7.8 Summary and exam tips
8 Religious language
8.1 Introduction
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 (via positiva) assessed
8.6 Tillich and symbolic language
8.7 Symbolic language assessed
8.8 Summary and exam tips
9 Twentieth-century perspectives
9.1 Introduction
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
9.8 Summary and exam tips
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