A-level Philosophy/AQA

AS

Unit 1 - Introduction to Philosophy 1

• Reason and experience
• Why should I be governed
• Why should I be moral?
• The Idea of God
• Persons

Unit 2: An Introduction to Philosophy 2

• Knowledge of the external world
• Tolerance
• The value of art
• God and the world
• Free will and determinism

A2

Unit 3: Key Themes in Philosophy

• Philosophy of mind
• Political Philosophy
• Epistemology and metaphysics
• Moral philosophy
• Philosophy of religion

Unit 4: Philosophical Problems

• Hume
• Plato
• Mill
• Descartes
• Nietzsche