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The Philosophers
Click here to go straight to links to sites about individual philosophers.
The Great Books
Don't just rely on quotations from text books for your studies of the great philosophers. This site offers a vast range of original texts, including some of the greatest philosophers' works. While your exams don't include "set texts" and questions set on specific passages, you will improve your understanding of the philosophers' works if you try to read the originals!
Faithnet
This is an excellent site that offers useful introductions to many of the issues associated with the Philosophy of Religion.
Epistemelinks
This is a useful link which catalogues a vast range of philosophers, including on-line resources. Well worth a visit!
Internet Library
This link takes you to a large resource of original texts - including a lot of recommended reading!
Virtual Philosophy Library
This Library is maintained at Bristol University.
Links to individual Philosophers (in no particular order!)
Augustine
With his colourful past and his powerful writings about personal morality and the Christian Faith, Augustine of Hippo is one of the most influential philosophers in Christian history. Here is another site.
Martin Buber
Famous as the philosopher who originated the idea of the "I-Thou" relationship. Click here to visit a large resource maintained in Germany - this link is to the pages in English! There is a link in the Religious Experience section to a website dedicated to his Religious thought. Click here to see the website.
Rene Descartes
Descartes is famous as being the Philosopher who doubted his own existence, but concluded that "I think, therefore I am". Click on the title to go to a page from St Andrews University on Descartes. This link takes you to the text of his best known work, his Meditations.
Nietzsche
Find information about the philosopher that suggested that "God is Dead".
Hume
Click here to visit the Hume Society's web pages. You'll find articles about his philosophy as well as texts.
For some notes on Hume's work on Miracles and on Revelation, go to Faithnet - click here. There are also some good notes on Hume's criticisms of the design argument. Click here. You can read the entire text of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - required reading if you want to know what Hume has to say about Miracles. Click here for that chapter. The chapter with the "Commit it to the flames" quotation is here. Go to the Index to the entire text here.
John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill is best known for his support for the Ethical theory of Utilitarianism. However, he also crops up in the Philosophy course. You will need to know his objections to the Teleological Argument. Click here to see notes on his Essays on Religion.
Aristotle
Selected works in translation - check on the "set texts" in your syllabus information, or click here go to the AS Course page.
Thomas Aquinas
The entire Summa Theologica is here - save time by checking on the exact reference that you want before you start to explore the site! Also there are links to other Aquinas resources, including Summa Contra Gentiles - quoted in the Problem of Evil notes. Aquinas on the Soul can be found in the Primary Pars - click here and go to questions 75 and 76. Click here to go straight to the AS Intro Foundation page of this website.
Bertrand Russell
Click here to visit the Bertrand Russell archive at McMaster University in the USA.
John Henry Newman
Cardinal Newman is one of the most influential figures in English Theology. Click here to access texts and articles. Another link is to the "Newmanreader" - click here for collected works on-line. The chapter of the "Grammar of Assent" that deals with the Illative Sense is here. For a brief introduction to the Illative Sense, try this. Explore Newman's views on Epistemology (the Philosophy of Knowledge) with a website from Notre Dame College, Ohio. The site draws some interesting conclusions regarding the debate over whether the mind is simply a machine.
Immanuel Kant
Click here to research the philosophy of Immanuel Kant - particularly on Reason and Experience, and on the Categorical Imperative.
Alvin Plantinga
Professor Plantinga was born in 1932, and is one of the most important modern figures in the Philosophy of Religion. He is mentioned at length in the unit on the Ontological Argument - go to the pages on the Arguments for the Existence of God for more information, especially the link to Forrest Baird! Click here to visit an amateur website devoted to Plantinga's philosophy.
Richard Swinburne
Richard Swinburne is the "Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion" at Oxford. His book, "The Existence of God" is veru influential - you may come across it when you study the Teleological Argument. This link is to a synopsis of the book.
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