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Paper 1: Philosophy of Religion
Explore fundamental questions about God, faith, reason, and the nature of religious belief through classical and contemporary philosophical arguments.
Ancient Philosophical Influences
Study Plato and Aristotle's foundational ideas including the Forms, teleology, and the Prime Mover.
Soul, Mind, Body
Explore the relationship between the physical body, the mind, and the concept of the soul.
Arguments based on observation
Examine the Design Argument and other arguments for God's existence based on observing the natural world.
Arguments based on reason
Study the Ontological Argument and other rational proofs for God's existence through logical reasoning.
Religious experience
Investigate mystical experiences, visions, and encounters claimed to provide evidence of the divine.
Problem of Evil
Confront the philosophical challenge of reconciling an omnipotent, loving God with the existence of suffering.
Nature and attributes of God
Analyze the traditional divine attributes including omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence.
Religious language: Negative, Analogical, Symbolic
Explore classical approaches to speaking about God through negation, analogy, and symbolic language.
Religious language: 20th century perspectives
Examine modern philosophical analysis of religious language through verification, falsification, and language games.