Course Description

Introduction to The Philosophy of Religion

Limerick College of Further Education



This course provides an introduction to those interested in the study of the philosophy of Religion.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

• What is Religion & What is the Philosophy of Religion
• ISMs and ISTs – ideologies and beliefs.
• Origins & Growth of Religion.
• Religious Experience & Religious Experiences in Language – Fables, Allegory, Literary Forms, Cosmogonies.
• Religious Language – Nameless One, Negative Language, Positive Language, Analogical Language, Dialectical Language, Signs & Symbols.
• Concepts of Deity and their Adequacy
• World Religions
• The Great Theistic Religions – Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• The Great Eastern Religions – Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism
• Grounds for Belief/Disbelief
• Cosmological, Teleological, Ontological and Moral Arguments, Pascal’s Wager
• Arguments from Uncertainty –
(Agnosticism)
• Arguments from Disbelief – (Atheism) – Schopenhauer, Marx, Feuerbach, Nietzsche, Freud


Course Code HL004
College Name Limerick College of Further Education
Course Category Humanities & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Theology
Course Type Classroom Based
Course Location Limerick, Ireland
Course Fee €100
Course Duration 8 weeks
Course Times THURS 19.00 - 21.00
Title of Awarding Certificate of Attendance
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