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Course Description

Rethinking Religion

Instructor: Alan Soffin
Dates: Wednesdays, Feb 1-Mar 29
Time: 10:30 AM-11:30 AM
Location: Online via Zoom  

 

Rethinking Religion is a class in philosophy of religion that aims to help students think philosophically. It analyzes concepts central to religion, especially as they bear upon religion’s defining question: “what is the meaning of human life?” To that end, we consider such topics as God, “creation,” miracles, faith, knowledge, morality, free will and the objectivity of values. “Religions,“ say the polls, ”are in decline.” But, the philosopher, Kolakowski, warns us that, “when modernity lost its sense of the sacred, it was doomed.“ Was he right?
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