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1.1 Identity

1.2 The self and the other

1.3 Consciousness

1.4 Personhood

1.5 Human nature

1.6 Freedom

2.1 The nature of art

2.2 The artist and the artistic process

2.3 Aesthetic experience and judgement

3.1 Nature of knowledge

3.2 Problems of knowledge

3.3 Application of knowledge

4.1 Normative ethics

4.2 Meta-ethics

4.3 Applied ethics

5.1 Nature and existence of God

5.2 Religious language

5.3 Religious experience and behaviour

6.1 Nature and methodologies of science

6.2 Science and the self

6.3 Science and society

7.1 The state

7.2 Justice

7.3 Liberty and rights

8.1 Social structures and institutions

8.2 Equality and discrimination

8.3 Gender

9.1 Philosophy and technology

9.2 Philosophy and the environment

9.3 The nature, function, and meaning of methodology of philosophy

10.1 Language, Truth and Logic – Alfred Jules Ayer

10.2 The Analects – Confucius

10.3 Meditations on First Philosophy – René Descartes

10.4 Black Skin, White Masks – Frantz Fanon

10.5 On the Genealogy of Morality – Friedrich Nietzsche

10.6 Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach – Martha C. Nussbaum

10.7 The Revolt of the Masses – José Ortega y Gasset

10.8 The Republic, Books IV–IX – Plato

10.9 The Ethics of Authenticity – Charles Taylor

10.10 Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu

10.11 The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir

10.12 On Liberty – John Stuart Mill

IB Philosophy 5.2.1 Nature of Religious Language Key Definitions

Definition

Aesthetic experience

Aesthetic experience: a distinctive mode of perception in which a subject attends to an object for its sensory, formal, and expressive qualities, valued for their own sake rather than for instrumental purposes.

Definition

Epistemic value of religious experience

The epistemic value of religious experience concerns whether such experiences provide genuine knowledge about the existence and nature of God, or whether they can be fully explained by psychological, neurological, or social factors without invoking a divine cause.

Definition

Ineffability

Ineffability is a characteristic of religious (especially mystical) experience identified by William James, referring to the quality of being beyond adequate verbal expression.

Definition

Religious language

Religious language: the words, statements, and linguistic forms used to express beliefs about God, the sacred, and the transcendent.

Philosophy of religion asks whether religious language is literal, symbolic, metaphorical, analogical, or mythological, and whether it can convey genuine knowledge.

IB Philosophy 5.2.1 Nature of Religious Language Key Definitions

Definition

Aesthetic experience

Aesthetic experience: a distinctive mode of perception in which a subject attends to an object for its sensory, formal, and expressive qualities, valued for their own sake rather than for instrumental purposes.

Definition

Epistemic value of religious experience

The epistemic value of religious experience concerns whether such experiences provide genuine knowledge about the existence and nature of God, or whether they can be fully explained by psychological, neurological, or social factors without invoking a divine cause.

Definition

Ineffability

Ineffability is a characteristic of religious (especially mystical) experience identified by William James, referring to the quality of being beyond adequate verbal expression.

Definition

Religious language

Religious language: the words, statements, and linguistic forms used to express beliefs about God, the sacred, and the transcendent.

Philosophy of religion asks whether religious language is literal, symbolic, metaphorical, analogical, or mythological, and whether it can convey genuine knowledge.