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課程名稱 |
西洋宗教哲學
Western Philosophy of Religion |
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開課學期 |
109-1 |
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授課對象 |
文學院 哲學系 |
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授課教師 |
陳樂知 |
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課號 |
Phl3815 |
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課程識別碼 |
104E55900 |
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班次 |
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學分 |
3.0 |
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全/半年 |
半年 |
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必/選修 |
選修 |
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上課時間 |
星期五7,8,9(14:20~17:20) |
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上課地點 |
新405 |
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備註 |
本課程以英語授課。(C)哲學專題群組，群組課程請參閱本系網頁修業課程規定。兼通識A4*。
總人數上限：60人 |
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Ceiba 課程網頁 |
http://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/1091Phl3815_ |
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課程概述 |
The philosophy of religion aims as using philosophical methods to inquire into religious concepts. This course focuses on Western philosophers’ discussions of religion. It treats three topics in philosophy of religion:
(I) Arguments for and against the existence of God.
(II) The epistemology of religion: what standard should we use when assessing reasons for being religious? What kinds of reasons are justified?
(III) The metaphysics of divine attributes—e.g. omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence.
It is also our department’s great honour to have two internationally renowned philosophers of religion, Professor Timothy O'Connor and Professor Graham Oppy contributing to this course. Professor O'Connor and Professor Oppy are, respectively, leading theist and atheist philosophers of their generation. Professor Oppy will first give an opinionated guest lecture in Week 11, teaching a class on ontological arguments. Then Professor O'Connor will give an academic talk in Week 12, with the target audience being the students. The students can observe how the best philosophers of both the contemporary theist and atheist camps develop their philosophies.
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課程目標 |
The aims of this course are as follows:
(1) Upon completing this course, students will have understood monotheistic and atheistic worldviews and be capable of making their own judgments.
(2) Among different areas of philosophy, philosophy of religion is one of those that particularly focus on philosophical arguments. Upon completing this course, students will have developed their skills in developing and critically assessing philosophical arguments.
(3) Surveying some historically influential texts and viewpoints.
(4) In the history of Western philosophy, many seminal theorists developed their philosophy on the basis of their religious viewpoints. Hence, upon completing this course, students will be more capable of studying the history of Western philosophy. |
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課程要求 |
Students are required to attend all tutorials, and to read the assigned readings in advance. No requirements of prior knowledge. |
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預期每週課後學習時數 |
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Office Hours |
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指定閱讀 |
Oppy, Graham & Scott, Michael 2010, Reading Philosophy of Religion, Malden: Blackwell（textbook） |
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參考書目 |
Bayne, Tim 2018, Philosophy of Religion: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Swinburne, Richard 2004, The Existence of God, 3rd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mackie, John 1982, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments For and Against the Existence of God, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oppy, Graham 2006, Arguing about Gods, New York: Cambridge University Press. |
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評量方式
(僅供參考) |
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No. |
項目 |
百分比 |
說明 |
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1. |
Tutorial discussion classes |
25% |
Calculated by the attendance rates and participation in the tutorial discussion classes. |
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Midterm exam |
30% |
On the first half of the course. |
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14th week assignment |
15% |
On Prof. Oppy and Prof. O'Connor seminars. |
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Final exam |
30% |
On the second half of the course. |
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週次 |
日期 |
單元主題 |
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第1週 |
9/18 |
Introduction |
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第2週 |
9/25 |
(I) Anselm’s ontological argument
Anselm, Proslogion, ch. II, in textbook pp. 70-81. |
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第3週 |
10/02 |
Public holiday |
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第4週 |
10/09 |
Public holiday |
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第5週 |
10/16 |
(I) Aquinas’s cosmological argument
Aquinas, Summa theologica, the second way, in textbook pp. 81-93.
[Online seminar at 10am-12noon; recording available online. The tutorial discussion class remains unaffected.] |
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第6週 |
10/23 |
(I) Paley’s teleological argument
William Paley, Natural theology (selection), in textbook pp. 103-116. |
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第7週 |
10/30 |
(I) J.L. Mackie’s logical problem of evil
John Leslie Mackie, ‘Evil and omnipotence’, in textbook pp. 138-151. |
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第8週 |
11/06 |
(I) William Rowe’s evidential problem of evil
William Leonard Rowe, ‘The problem of evil and some varieties of atheism’, in textbook pp. 151-160. |
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第9週 |
11/13 |
Midterm exam |
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第10週 |
11/20 |
(II) Pascal’s Wager
Blaise Pascal, Pensées, ‘Pascal's wager’, in textbook pp. 93-103.
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第11週 |
11/27 |
(II) William Clifford’s ‘The ethics of belief’
William Clifford, ‘The ethics of belief’, in textbook pp. 175-186. |
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第12週 |
12/04 |
Prof. Timothy O'Connor's academic talk for students: “Ways of Knowing in Science and Religion"
[Online seminar at 10am-12noon; recording available online. The tutorial discussion class remains unaffected.] |
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第13週 |
12/11 |
Prof. Graham Oppy's guest lecture: Ontological Arguments
Assigned reading: Oppy, G. 2020, 'Ontological arguments', Think 19 (55):11-21. |
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第14週 |
12/18 |
(II) William James’s ‘The will to believe’
William James, ‘The will to believe’, in textbook pp. 187-204. |
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第15週 |
12/25 |
(III) Omnipotence and the problem of the stone
C. Wade Savage, ‘The paradox of the stone’, in textbook pp. 238-248.
[Online seminar at 10am-12noon; recording available during normal class time. The tutorial discussion class remains unaffected.] |
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第16週 |
1/01 |
Public holiday |
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第17週 |
1/08 |
(III) The Euthyphro dilemma
Norman J. Kretzmann, ‘Abraham, Isaac and Euthyphro : God and the basis of morality’, in textbook pp. 257-270. |
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第18週 |
1/15 |
Final exam |
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