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Leaving Cert Philosophy

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  • #2
    RabbitHearted
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 101 ✭✭RabbitHearted


    just a thought, there is quite a lot of philosophy on the religion(exam) course, is it really necessary as a separate subject?


  • #3
    steven857
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 ✭steven857


    Having spoken to professors, and looked over the Religion syllabus, I don't think that's the case. Also, they're two very different things.


  • #4
    VincentLeB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭VincentLeB


    RabbitHearted wrote: »
    just a thought, there is quite a lot of philosophy on the religion(exam) course, is it really necessary as a separate subject?

    It is totally up to the teacher. I don't think there's very much on the actual syllabus, but any clever teacher would know that a philosophical discussion surrounding most issues in religion provides a good background for essays in the exam.

    But that's not why a philosophy subject would be introduced — to discuss the "meaning of life" or whatever — but instead to encourage logic and argument formation. The kind of transferrable skills that philosophy is famous for, and that's why I think it would be brilliant to offer it at Leaving Cert. level.

    I signed the petition a few weeks ago.


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