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I often say, Religion is the Philosophy of people and philosophy is the religion of wise men. Actually I want to justify the gap between common people and philosophers. He who has the capacity to understand new things, believe unbelievable things can easily perceive the realities of the heaps of straw dusts of philosophy, but there are still men to whom it is impossible to assimilate such unbelievable realities like earth is round or stars are dust. That’s why I say philosophy is the religion of wise men. And when I say that religion is the philosophy of mosses I actually mean the people who can compromise with those dogmas of religion that apparently doesn’t make sense but they can justify them for themselves much sufficient.

1. What is philosophy of religion?

2. Arguments for the Existence of God

3. Divine Attributes: Eternity and Changelessness, Omnipotence, Omniscience.

4. Modern Challenges to Religious Relief (Psychoanalysis, Logical Positivism, Marxism)

5. Faith and Reason

6. Nature and Function of Religious Language.

7. Religious Experience

8. Problem of Evil

9. Life after Death.

Books Recommended
1. Davies, Brian, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University, Press, 1982.
2. Flew & McIntyre, New Essays in Philosophical Theology. New York: MacMilllan, 1966.
3. Helm, Paul, The Varieties of Belief. London: George Allan and Unwin, 1973.
4. Mitchell, B. (ed.), The Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press, 1976.
5. O’Hear, Anthony, Experience, Explanation and faith. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984
6. Pike, Nelson, God and Timelessness. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970.
7. Cadir, C. A., Logical Positivism. Lahore: Pakistan Philosophical Congress, 1965.
8. Swinburne, Richard, The Coherence of Theism. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.

Wiki, A philosophical movement is either the appearance or increased popularity of a specific school of philosophy, or a fairly broad but identifiable sea-change in philosophical thought on a particular subject. Major philosophical movements are often characterized with reference to the nation, language, or historical era in which they arose. (Wiki ends)

Some popular modern philosophical movements are,

• Logical Positivism:

Turning Point Philosophy

Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language

Criterion of Verifiability

• Dialectical Materialism:

Matter, Dialectics

Historical Materialism

Theory of Knowledge

• Existentialism:

Husserl’s Phenomenological Method

Man in the World, Man and Fellow Man

Man and God

Death (with special reference to Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre)

• Conceptual Analysis:

Word-meaning

Sentence-meaning

Vagueness

Private Ordinary Language

Book Recommended

1. Action, H. B., The Illusion of the Epoch. 2^nd edition. Cohen & west, 1962.

2. Ayer, A. J., Language, Truth and Logic, 2^nd ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1962.

3. Ayer, A. J. (ed.), Logical Positivism. New York: The Free Press, 1959.

4. Barrett, W., Irrational Man. New York: Double Day /co. 1968.

5. Blackham, H. J., Six Existentialist Thinkers. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961.

6. Caton, C. E., Philosophy and Ordinary Language. Urbana University of Illinois Press, 1963.

7. Grossmann, Reinhardt, Phenomenology and Existentialism, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984.

8. Kolakowski, L., Main Currents of Marxism. 3 Volumes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

9. Lichtheim, G., Marxism; An Historical and Critical Study. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961.

10. Nadeem, Javed I., Lahore: Victory Book Bank, 1989.

11. Passmore, J., A Hundred Years of Philosophy. Penguin Books, 1966.

12. Qadir, C. A., Logical Positivism. Lahore: Pakistan Philosophical Congress, 1965.