Religious Studies

Course summary

Philosophy is an academic subject which involves analysing and evaluating concepts that students would not necessarily have thought about before. The course is demanding and as such requires a lot of work from each of its students. You will need to be organised, motivated and enthusiastic and most importantly open to new ideas and concepts. UNIT 1: Ancient philosophical influences, soul mind and body, arguments for and against God’s existence, religious experience and language, the problem of evil, immortality. UNIT 2: Normative ethical theories, the application of normative theories to four modern day issues, ethical language and thought, debates about conscience and freewill, UNIT 3: Buddhist beliefs, values and teachings and their relation to the contemporary world, sources of religious wisdom and authority, practices, plus social and historical developments in theology and Buddhist thought.