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Religious Movements list
The University of Virginia has a great page at giving profiles for a huge number of religious movements: be it the Amish, Falun Gong, Jesus Army, UFO cults or Zoroastrianism – they are all there…Enjoy… d.
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Religion, Philosophy & Ethics
Welcome to the course blog for Religion, Philosophy & Ethics at University of Gloucestershire.
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Abraham and the Sacrifice of his Son in the three Abrahamic Faiths
The University is joining the Al Mahdi Institute in Birmingham in an exploration of the topic of Sacrifice in the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The focus is a single text: the story of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his…
Autumn is a time for paradox and punishment..
As the nights draw in, and summertime evening frolics become less feasible, our students, no doubt, are turning to more cerebral means to pass the evening hours. One way might be to consider the paradox at which I thought…
It is Never to Late to Learn
As I said to my students in RPE101, Philosophical and Ethical Arguing (and probably scaring them a little, though that was unintentional), you have to own your own learning, by which I meant you have to transform yourself from a…
The Ethicist
Ethical advice via podcast?“Randy Cohen, Times Magazine columnist, answers readers’ questions on ethical issues each week.” I enjoyed some – but the phrase “Cake-free workplace”? : only in America… d.
Philosophy Society Update
The October meeting for the Philosophy Society will be held on the 8th, at 7pm in The Gallery Room above the SU Bar at Park Campus. All following meetings will fall on the first Thursday of the month. I found…
What is the difference?
Christian refuses to remove crucifix (at work): Jedi refuses to remove hood (in Tesco): Are the issues the same?
Dawkins on Science
I read this in the Guardian the other day. Though, as students in RPE 201 know (Philosophy, Science and Belief), I am not an ardent fan of his, I do believe he’s absolute right about this, when he writes about…
Schopenhauer and Love – by Alain de Botton; and Zizek too…
Interesting – but is it that persuasive? http://video.google.co.uk/googleplayer.swf?docid=8358646220672429933&hl=en&fs=true OR… [dailymotion id=x4j2u7]