AS Syllabus

Unit 1
Theory of Knowledge

• Empiricism and Rationalism
• Knowledge and Justification
• Knowledge and Scepticism
• Knowledge of the External World

Unit 2
Moral Philosophy or Philosophy of Religion

Moral Philosophy

• Normative ethics
• Practical ethics
• Meta-ethics: cognitivism
• Meta-ethics: non-cognitivism

Philosophy of Religion

• The meaning and justification of religious concepts
• Arguments for the existence of God
• Faith, reason and belief
• The implications of God’s existence

Unit 3
Texts

• Plato, The Republic
• Descartes, Meditations
• Marx and Engels, The German Ideology
• Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism