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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 5.3.2 the Value of Religious Experience Key Definitions

Definition

Omnipotence paradox

The omnipotence paradox refers to a family of logical puzzles (such as "Can God create a stone so heavy that God cannot lift it?") that challenge the coherence of unlimited divine power as a concept.

Definition

Projection theory

Projection theory is the view, associated with Feuerbach, Freud, and Marx, that the concept of God is a human creation projected outward rather than a response to an independently existing divine reality. Feuerbach argued that theology is unconscious anthropology, with believers attributing their own idealised qualities to a fictitious being, while Freud interpreted religion as wish-fulfilment rooted in childhood dependence.

Definition

The Real (Hick)

In John Hick's philosophy of religion, the Real refers to the ultimate divine reality that transcends all human categories and is experienced differently through the cultural and conceptual frameworks of particular religious traditions, analogous to Kant's distinction between noumenon (thing-in-itself) and phenomenon (thing-as-experienced).

IB Philosophy 5.3.2 the Value of Religious Experience Key Definitions

Definition

Omnipotence paradox

The omnipotence paradox refers to a family of logical puzzles (such as "Can God create a stone so heavy that God cannot lift it?") that challenge the coherence of unlimited divine power as a concept.

Definition

Projection theory

Projection theory is the view, associated with Feuerbach, Freud, and Marx, that the concept of God is a human creation projected outward rather than a response to an independently existing divine reality. Feuerbach argued that theology is unconscious anthropology, with believers attributing their own idealised qualities to a fictitious being, while Freud interpreted religion as wish-fulfilment rooted in childhood dependence.

Definition

The Real (Hick)

In John Hick's philosophy of religion, the Real refers to the ultimate divine reality that transcends all human categories and is experienced differently through the cultural and conceptual frameworks of particular religious traditions, analogous to Kant's distinction between noumenon (thing-in-itself) and phenomenon (thing-as-experienced).