Introducing the philosophy of religion
Offered By: The Open University via OpenLearn
Course Description
Overview
In this free course, Introducing the philosophy of religion, Timothy Chappell, Professor of Philosophy, asks what the words 'God' and 'religion' mean, and what it means to ask philosophical questions about them.
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- Getting straight what we mean
- Two provisional definitions
- Improving the definitions
- Questions about religion and God: a survey
- Philosophical and non-philosophical questions
- Argument or blind faith?
- So who’s right: Ada, Bert or Carl?
- Faith and reason
- Collecting arguments for God’s existence
- Better arguments for and against God’s existence
- Arguments from ‘The way the world is’
- Aquinas’s ‘Second Way’
- The structure of arguments
- Finding the shape of Aquinas’s argument
- Evaluating Aquinas’s argument
- Conclusion
- References
- Acknowledgements
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