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AQA An Introduction to Philosophy for AS level

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A student-friendly introduction to AS Philosophy, structured around the AQA AS Philosophy specification.

From the author team behind the successful Philosophy in Focus series, this book covers 7 popular AS themes in sufficient depth to achieve a top grade. It combines academic rigour with engaging activities. The authors have used their wealth of experience in teaching philosophy to devise a set of helpful features that deepen understanding and exercise the philosophical mind including:

- Activities: practical tasks to help users understand the key philosophical ideas

- 'Experimenting with ideas': activities that explore the concepts and helps students identify their own philosophical viewpoints

- 'Criticism': highlights and evaluates some of the weaknesses in the arguments advanced by philosophers

- 'More difficult': guides students carefully through particularly daunting arguments

- Quotations are included from the key texts by the key philosophers

- 'Key point summaries': help students to consolidate knowledge

Topics covered:

1 Why should I be moral?

2 The idea of God

3 Persons

4 Reason and experience

5 The debate over free will and determinism

6 God and the world

7 Knowledge of the external world



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