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AS/ A-level Philosophy covers the following six units
AS Unit 1 The Theory of Knowledge (Epistemology)
Unit 2
Unit 3 The work of a major philosopher (Sartre, Descartes)
A-level Unit 4
Unit 5 The work of a major philosopher (Hume)
Unit 6 Synoptic Unit
- comparing the work of major
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The question of what Rodin's thinker is actually doing is one of the topics investigated in philosophy of mind
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We follow the AQA Philosophy specification |
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Cynic philosopher. Lived in a barrel to show his contempt for convention. Told Alexander the Great to get out of his sunlight.
When asked which wine he liked best, he replied, "That for which other people pay." |
Existentialist philosopher Played in goal for Algeria. Novelist Winner of the Nobel prize for literature. Died in a car crash in 1960.
"All I know most surely about morality and obligations, I owe to football" |
Diogenes of Sinope
(4th century BC).
Albert Camus