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Many religious questions and topics have often been central to philosophical reflection in the long philosophical tradition of the West that reaches from Ancient Greece to the present day. By way of common close extended reading and analysis of one or more classic texts from this tradition of Philosophy of Religion, this course invites students to delve more deeply into the way religious questions have been approached by important philosophical thinkers as wider ranging as Plato, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche and Plantinga. Download Course Guide
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Old Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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Many religious questions and topics have often been central to philosophical reflection in the long philosophical tradition of the West that reaches from Ancient Greece to the present day. By way of common close extended reading and analysis of one or more classic texts from this tradition of Philosophy of Religion, this course invites students to delve more deeply into the way religious questions have been approached philosophically by important formative thinkers. Classic texts to be consider may include notable works by Plato and Aristotle, Boethius, Augustine, Aquinas, Rousseau, Lessing, Hume, Kant, Leibnitz, Locke, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Feuerbach and Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Swinburne, Plantinga, Caputo, and other important contemporary philosophers working in the field.
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
1st Attempt
Resit
There are no assessments for this course.
Feedback will be given by course instructors in the form of personal conversation with students in seminar, detailed written comments on all submitted written work, and detailed written feedback on seminar presentations.
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