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PHIL100 Introduction to Philosophical Enquiry

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

This unit introduces the student to central topics in philosophy through the close study of one or two influential texts in the discipline. In keeping with the text(s) chosen, the unit will treat such topics as the following: certainty and knowledge, the self; perception and intellectual knowledge; truth and error; identity through time; the nature of physical things; the relationship between body and soul; knowledge of the future; freedom; the grounds of duty; ethics and nature; the nature of meaning and reference; objectivity and subjectivity; happiness and the good life; the grounds of political obligation; arguments for the existence of God; relations between God and the world.

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