Philosopy- improved

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1.1 Ancient philosphical influences
What is rationalism,
What is empiricism,
What is reason
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1.2 Plato's understanding of reality
What is platos allegory of the cave,
What do the prisoners in the alle...,
What does the cave in the allegor...
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1.3 Plato's forms
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1.4 Asessing Plato on the forms
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1.5 Aristotles understanding of reality
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1.6 Aristotle's prime mover
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1.7 Asessing Aristotles views
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1.8 Plato versus Aristotle - reason and experience
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2.1 Soul, mind and body
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2.2 Plato's view of the soul
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2.3 Aristotle's view of the body and soul
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2.4 Descartes and substance dualism
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2.5 Materialism
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2.6 Evaluating dualism
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2.7 Evaluating materialism
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3.1 Arguments based on observation
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3.2 Aquinas' teleological argument: the fifth way
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3.3 Paley's teleological argument
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3.4 The cosmological argument: Aquinas' first three ways
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3.5 Hume's challenges to the arguments from observation
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3.6 The challenge of evolution
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3.7 Logical fallacies
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4.1 Arguments based on reason
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4.2 Anselm's ontological argument
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4.3 Gaunilo versus Anselm
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4.4 Kant's criticisms
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4.5 Assessing th e ontological argument
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4.6 Comparing a priori and a posteriori arguments
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5.1 Religious experience
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5.2 William James
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5.3 Mystical experiences
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5.4 Conversion experiences
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5.5 The case for religious experience
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5.6 Do religious experiences have a pyschological or physiological explanation?
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5.7 Corporate experiences; are they more reliable than individual exoeriences?
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5.8 Religious experience as a basis for believing in God or a greater power
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6.1 The problem of evil
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6.2 The logical and evidential problems of evil
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6.3 Augustine
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6.4 Hick
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6.5 Discussing the problem of evil
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7.1 The nature or attributes of God
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7.2 Omnipotence
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7.3 Eternity
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7.4 Omniscience
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7.5 Omnibenevolence
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7.6 Discussing the nature of God
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7.7 Comparing Boethius, Anselm and Swinburne
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8.1 Religious language
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8.2 Explaining the apophatic way (via negativa)
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8.3 The apophatic way assessed
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8.4 The cataphatic way (via positiva)- Aquinas and analogy
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8.5 The cataphatic way assessed
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8.6 Tillich and symbolic language
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8.7 Symbolic language assessed
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9.1 Twentieth-century perspectives
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9.2 The verification principle
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9.3 Verificationism assessed
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9.4 The falsification symposium
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9.5 Assessing the views presented in the falsification symposium
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9.6 Wittgenstein and language games
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9.7 Wittgenstein assessed
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General questions
What is represented by the outsid...,
Why should philosophers ruel accr...,
Which of the forms is the ultimat...
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Key words
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Philosophy full
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