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Revision notes for A-level Religious Studies (OCR)

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PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION - THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

ARGUMENTS FROM OBSERVATION

TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

  • AQUINAS
  • Fifth Way
  • WILLIAM PALEY
  • Watchmaker analogy
  • HUME
  • DAWKINS
  • ANTONY FLEW
  • F.R. TENNANT

COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

  • ARISTOTLE
  • THOMAS AQUINAS
  • Three cosmological ‘Ways’
  • Summa Theologica
  • Argument from motion
  • Argument from causation:
  • Contingency argument:
  • “ex nihilo nihil fit”
  • Quantum physics
  • No-boundary proposal:
  • Hawking + Hartle
  • Wave-function of the universe
  • Oscillating universe theory:
  • GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ
  • Criticisms of cosmological argument:
  • Hume
  • The fallacy of composition
  • STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
  • Key issues

ARGUMENTS FROM REASON

ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT

  • ANSELM
  • GAUNILO OF MARMOUTIER
  • Dawkins
  • RENE DESCARTES
  • Cartesian doubt
  • COGITO ERGO SUM
  • Analytic statement
  • Descartes’ triangle
  • IMMANUEL KANT
  • SYNTHETIC HYPOTHESIS
  • STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
  • Russell
  • Key issues

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