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2. Aristotle's theory of universals - universals as essences or as principles or development 3. Ockham's razor 4. Philosophy of Locke including simple and complex ideas and primary and secondary qualities 5. Philosophy of Berkeley including his rejection of Locke's distinction between primary and secondary qualities 6. Philosophy of Hume including his analysis of causality - meaning of skepticism 7. Philosophy of Kant including his categories of understanding 8. Ontological, cosmological, and teleological proofs for the existence of God9. Hume's criticisms of the above proofs 10. Arguments for atheism 11. Feuerbach's and Marx's criticism of religion as alienation 12. Freud's psychoanalytic account of religion 13. The debate over the interpretation of mystical experiences such as St. Teresa's 14. Kierkegaard's Christian existentialism and his meditation on the story of Abraham and Isaac 15. There will be four review questions.
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