Gaunilo Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

An A** 40-mark A-Level Philosophy essay assessing the success of ontological arguments. From the Arguments Based on Reason topic within the OCR RS curriculum. Written by an A-Level student who achieved an A* in A-Level Religious Studies (a.k.a Philosophy and Ethics) (2022) and a Grade 9 (A**) in GCSE Religious Studies (2020)

1. a posteriori Literally "after experience"; knowledge that comes from experience 2. "a strutting wa- terfowl" Aristophanes said this about Socrates; In Aristophne's play, the bird mocks Socrates 3. Academy Plato's school 4. Achilles and the Tortoise Zano's paradoxes - infinities within infinities 5. actuality (act) God is actuality, matter is potentiality; contrast with poten- cy 6. air Anaxemendes thought this was the fundamental sub- stance 7. Alexander t...

Includes arguments from Malcolm, Plantinga, Anselm, Descartes, Gaunilo

Complete Revision Notes Tailored to the Specification, Covering the following Specification Points: - Paley’s Analogical argument, Criticisms from Hume, Strengths and Weaknesses. - Anselm’s A Priori argument, Criticisms from Gaunilo and Kant, Strengths + Weaknesses. - Aquinas’ Way 3, Criticisms from Hume and Russell, Strengths and Weaknesses. - The Relationship Between Reason and Faith.

Notes covering the H573/01 Philosophy of Religion topic of the Ontological Argument, with explanation and notes covering all the necessary content for the exams.

This essay covers unit 1.2 of the Edexcel Religious Studies specification - the Ontological argument. It is used in Section C of Paper 1 (Question 4), includes a synoptic link, and can be tailored to earlier questions of the paper. The first part of the essay explores the debate shown in 1.3 (a), such as explanations into a priori arguments, deductive reasoning and analytic propositions. The essay then begins to examine different types of the argument, based on different definitions of God, show...

Essay plan containing arguments and counter-arguments for the ontological argument. I used this plan when writing an essay in class, for which I got 25/30 marks (A grade)

A01 and A02 notes, and evaluative model paragraph structures for the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God topic, following the OCR Religious Studies, Philosophy of Religion Unit. Please reach out if you have any questions about the resource or the content itself. Thanks!

Revision notes on the AQA A-level Philosophy 2175 specification for Unit 2 Philosophy of Religion. Compiled from textbooks and internet sources. Including: * the concept of God; the paradox of the stone; and the Euthyphro dilemma; * the ontological arguments of Anselm, Descartes, Leibniz, Malcolm and Plantinga, with responses from Gaunilo, Hume and Kant; * Paley's and Swinburne's arguments from design, with responses from Paley, Hume and Kant; * the cosmological arguments of Aquinas (first ...

This document details the important information regarding the Challenges to the Ontological Argument in the WJEC Religious Studies A Level course