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Freewill and determinism are ideas about the extent to which human beings are capable of having their own thoughts, making their own decisions and acting upon those decisions. There are often said to be t...

Utilitarianism is a system for making ethical decisions - ones that involve a question of whether something is right or wrong. Utilitarianism argues that we should make these decisions based on how useful...

The Bhagavad Gita is a series of Ancient Indian texts that are composed as a poem; the name means ‘the song of the Lord’. It forms part of ‘The Mahabharata’, a large Indian epic that teaches topics rel...

Technically epistemology is the study of knowledge, but at A-level, you need to know that it's the weight behind any philosophical argument and will be incredibly useful to include in any theory you us...

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The revival of interest in practical reason has brought in it’s wake renewed philosophical attention to the theories of...