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PHIL105 Values and Beliefs

10 cp
Prerequisites Nil
Teaching Organisation Lectures, tutorials, seminars.

For people of all persuasions, deep-seated values and views of reality have a strong influence on conceptions of life, death, suffering and other important notions that recur regularly in human life. The student will be introduced, from a philosophical perspective, to the variety of religious and other traditions in contemporary society and their impact on the search for meaning. Topics to be studied will be chosen from broad areas such as the following: the nature of religion; reason and faith; human nature and afterlife; ultimate reality, God and the manifest world; the meaning of life, suffering, evil and death; the ethics of life and death; science and religion; impact on practical life. Traditions to be examined will be chosen from such as the following: Aboriginal religion, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity.

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