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A student-friendly introduction to AS Philosophy, structured around the AQA AS Philosophy specification.
From the author team behind the successful Philosophy in Focus series, this book covers 7 popular AS themes in sufficient depth to achieve a top grade. It combines academic rigour with engaging activities. The authors have used their wealth of experience in teaching philosophy to devise a set of helpful features that deepen understanding and exercise the philosophical mind including:
- Activities: practical tasks to help users understand the key philosophical ideas
- 'Experimenting with ideas': activities that explore the concepts and helps students identify their own philosophical viewpoints
- 'Criticism': highlights and evaluates some of the weaknesses in the arguments advanced by philosophers
- 'More difficult': guides students carefully through particularly daunting arguments
- Quotations are included from the key texts by the key philosophers
- 'Key point summaries': help students to consolidate knowledge
Topics covered:
1 Why should I be moral?
2 The idea of God
3 Persons
4 Reason and experience
5 The debate over free will and determinism
6 God and the world
7 Knowledge of the external world
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A student-friendly introduction to AS Philosophy, structured around the AQA AS Philosophy specification. From the author team behind the successful Philosophy in Focus series, this book covers 7 popular AS themes in sufficient depth to achieve a top grade. It combines academic rigour with engaging activities. The authors have used their wealth of experience in teaching philosophy to devise a set of helpful features that deepen understanding and exercise the philosophical mind including: - Activities: practical tasks to help users understand the key philosophical ideas - 'Experimenting with ideas': activities that explore the concepts and helps students identify their own philosophical viewpoints - 'Criticism': highlights and evaluates some of the weaknesses in the arguments advanced by philosophers - 'More difficult': guides students carefully through particularly daunting arguments - Quotations are included from the key texts by the key philosophers - 'Key point summaries': help students to consolidate knowledge Topics covered: 1 Why should I be moral? 2 The idea of God 3 Persons 4 Reason and experience 5 The debate over free will and determinism 6 God and the world 7 Knowledge of the external world. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR001883972
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