Philosophy of Religion 3800-FR24-F

- Introductory issues: the subject and scope of philosophy of religion; diversity of its practicing; philosophy of religion and discipline and related qualities (religion, religious studies, theology); etymological issues; formation, development, relative separateness of philosophy of religion within philosophy,
- Concepts of the essence and sources of religion: psychological reductionism (Freud, Jung, Fromm), sociological reductionism (Marx, Durkheim, Weber), anthropologism (Feuerbach), ethicism (Kant), phenomenology of religion (Otto, Scheler, van der Leeuw, Eliade) , religion as an inspiration for philosophy (neotomism, Russian religious philosophy, Protestant theology, philosophy of dialogue), Sacrum, numinosum, nothingness as a source of religiosity (Otto, Wolniewicz, Welte),
- Philosophy of the Absolute: the essence of the issue, theories of the Absolute (Heraklit, Plato, Plotinus, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Eriugena, Thomas, Master Eckhart, Boehme, Hegel, Schelling, Kierkegaard, Solovjov, Frank), evidence for the existence of God, heresies,
- Religious inspirations in philosophical anthropology (Pascal, Kierkegaard, Bergson, Dostoyevsky, Berdajev, Shestov, Levinas),
- Postsecularism (Habermas, Badiou).