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Extract 6: Psalm 14.1
Below is the extract of Psalm 14 which Gaunilo alludes to in his response to Anselm, ‘In Behalf of the Fool.’…
Read MoreArticle Plato’s Charioteer and Human Nature
source What is a man? What sort of man should I be? What does it mean to live a good life?…
Read MoreHandout – The Problem of Evil & Theodicies of Augustine and Irenaeus
source The Problem of Evil The existence of bad or evil things isn’t hard to explain for non-theists—human beings and the…
Read MoreSpecification H573/1 The Problem of Evil
3. God and the World: The Problem of Evil Learners will study the challenge posed to religious belief by the problems…
Read MoreSpecification H573/1 Ontological Argument
Michael Palmer explains why the ontological argument is unique. ‘With this distinction between a priori and a posteriori behind us, we…
Read MoreSpecification H573/1 Cosmological Argument
The cosmological argument is an a priori argument for God’s existence that moves from premises to conclusion without direct appeal to…
Read MoreSpecification H573/1 Teleological Argument
The Teleological and Cosmological arguments are arguments a posteriori – from experience using our senses. Michael Palmer puts it like this:…
Read MoreSpecification H573/1 Aristotle
Aristotle is the father of empiricism, Plato of a form of rationalism called idealism. Aristotle’s empiricism finds its fruit in the…
Read MoreSpecification H573/1 Plato
Plato is the father of a type of rationalism sometimes called idealism which deduces ultimate reality lies beyond the senses –…
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Practise Questions 2020
Religious Studies Guides – 2020
