2c. Content of Philosophy of religion (H573/01) - 6. Religious Language: Twentieth Century Perspectives - Twentieth-century perspectives and philosophical comparisons — OCR A-Level Religious Studies
2c. Content of Philosophy of religion (H573/01) - 6. Religious Language: Twentieth Century Perspectives - Twentieth-century perspectives and philosophical comparisons explained
2c. Content of Philosophy of religion (H573/01) - 6.
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Religious Language: Twentieth Century Perspectives - Twentieth-century perspectives and philosophical comparisons covers 9 specification points, including logical positivism and Wittgenstein’s views on language games and…. Open a point below for its explanation and revision guidance.
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- logical positivism
- Wittgenstein’s views on language games and forms of life
- discussion about the factual quality of religious language in the falsification symposium
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- the impact of the verification principle on the use of religious language, with reference to: Ayer’s approach to verification
- how language games may permit religious language to be deemed meaningful yet not cognitive
- the varying arguments, with their associated parables, put forward in relation to theological language by: Flew, Hare and Mitchell in their contributions to the symposium
- whether or not any version of the verification principle successfully renders religious language as meaningless
- whether or not any participant in the falsification symposium presented a convincing approach to the understanding of religious language
- a comparison of the ideas of Aquinas and Wittgenstein, including: whether a cognitive approach (such as Aquinas’s thinking on analogy) or a non-cognitive approach (such as the language games concept of Wittgenstein) present better ways of making sense of religious language; the influence of non-cognitive approaches on the interpretation of religious texts; how far Aquinas’ analogical view of theological language remains valuable in philosophy of religion