Using religious language to fight global warming

An interesting discussion of how religious terminology is used by scientists discussing climate change. Have they adopted the language of a millenium cult to "scare us" into stop sinning and take climate change seriously?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8468233.stm

Morality Play

A new morality game to test your ethics from The Philosopher's Magazine online.

http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/morality_play.php

Philosophy A2

The Philosophy A2 course begins on 22nd June with a module on Religious Language. Full course outline is attached below:
Religious Language

• Use and purpose of religious language

• The via negative

• Verification and Falsification principles

• How meaningful is religious language

• The use of symbol, analogy and myth to express our understanding of God

• The Vienna Circle

Religious Experience

• Arguments from religious experience

• Main conclusions drawn by William James

• Forms of religious experience: visions, voices, “numinous” experience, conversion experience, corporate religious experience

• Revelation through sacred writing

• MIRACLE including:

o Different definitions including Hume

o Biblical concept of miracle

o Criticisms made by Hume and Wiles

The Nature of God

• God as eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omni-benevolent and the philosophical problems these cause

• Boethius – Book 5 The Consolations of Philosophy

• Would a good God reward or punish



Life and Death: The Soul

• Distinctions between body and soul (Plato, Aristotle, Hick and Dawkins)

• Questions surrounding the nature of a disembodied existence

• Relationship between the afterlife and the problem of evil