These notes are very in detail and include notes from multiple textbooks recommended for the Religious Studies OCR course as well as extra reading. Evaluation is colour coded in red and green and scholars are highlighted in yellow so that they stand out
Forms: A name Plato gave to ideal concepts
Reason: Using logical steps and though processes in
order to reach conclusions
Rationalist: Someone who thinks that the primary
source of knowledge is reason
Empiricist: Someone who thinks that the primary source
of knowledge is experience gained through the five
senses
Prime mover: Aristotle’s concept of the ultimate cause
of movement and change in the universe
Socratic method: The method of philosophical reasoning
which involves critical questioning
Analogy: A comparison between one thing and another
in an attempt to clarify meaning
Transcendent: Beyond this world and outside the realms
of ordinary experience
Dualism: The belief that reality can be divided into two
distinct parts, such as good and evil, or physical and
non-physical
Aetion: An explanatory factor, a reason or cause for
something
Telos: the end, or purpose of something
Theist: Someone who believes in a God or gods
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