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Extract 7: Key terms in Sartre’s philosophy of freedom
SARTRE SUMMARY 1. EXISTENCE PRECEDES ESSENCE. "Freedom is existence, and in it existence precedes essence." This means that what we do,…
Read MoreExtract 4: Augustine and creatio ex nihilo
God creates out of nothing: Creatio ex nihilo Source: Robert Schneider The Greeks held that the cosmos had always existed, that…
Read MoreExtract 8: Augustine’s conversion “voice”
Augustine’s conversion ‘voice’ Augustine’s conversion illustrates well how religious people take everyday features of language and then change them according to…
Read MoreExtract: Abortion And Embryo Research
Jonathan Glover explains the ethics of embryo research The impasse in the abortion debate partly results from all parties treating it…
Read MoreExtract 7: Reincarnation, Ian Stevenson
Reincarnation Source: Scholarship Reincarnation in Buddhism This idea of a soul returning in different bodies has ancient roots beyond the Greeks. It…
Read MoreExtract 8: The Buddhist meaning of happiness
The Buddhist idea of happiness is radically different from western views, which tend to equate happiness with development of self or…
Read MoreExtract 6: CD Broad
CD Broad In the known relevant normal and abnormal facts there is nothing to suggest, and much to counter-suggest, the possibility…
Read MoreExtract 5: Near Death Experiences
Contemporary Near-Death Studies Price has given us a coherent and meaningful conceptual framework for after-death experiences. In contrast to other scenarios,…
Read MoreExtract 4: HH Price Dreamstate
H. H. Price’s View of the Afterlife From N. F. Gier “Humanistic Self-Judgment and After-Death Experiences” in Geddes MacGregor, ed., Immortality…
Read MoreExtract 3: Dawkins, memes, God, faith and altruism
From The Selfish Gene chapter 5 Memes The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for…
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Religious Studies Guides – 2020
