A2 Philosophy and Ethics: Critiques of Belief

Flashcards by Adam Cook, created more than 1 year ago

Flash cards designed for: Edexcel - Religious Studies - Philosophy and Ethics - Unit 3 - Philosophy - Critiques of belief. Bear in mind, before revising, that Critiques of Belief rarely comes up in the exam and so it may be worth revising an extra topic in case this question does not come up.

	Created by Adam Cook about 9 years ago

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Critiques of Belief:

Gaskin:

5 types of unbelief:

Russell:
(Materialism)

Ayer:
(Scepticism)

Baron d'Holbach:
(Critical Unbelief)

Dawkins:
(Social Unbelief)

Criticism of Dawkins:
(Ward & MacGrath - The Dawkins Delusion)

Durkheim:
(Naturalistic explanation - Sociological)

Weaknesses of Durkheim:

Marx:
(Naturalistic explanation - Sociological)

Weaknesses of Marx:

Freud:
(Naturalistic explanation - Psychological)

Freud's 3 Criticism of Religion:

Weaknesses of Freud: