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Philosophy

Studying Philosophy at Bow Sixth Form

Exam Board: AQA

Entry Requirements: A minimum of a grade 6 in five subjects at GCSE, including English Language and Religious Studies.

Why study this course?

Studying Philosophy as a subject for your A-Levels can open up new perspectives and give you a wide range of insights of many morals that could possibly relate to you and cause you to think deeper and view things more critically. The course revolves around looking into and exploring different essential questions about religion, knowledge and reality. Taking on Philosophy will encourage you to analyse arguments and view them from different perspectives with solid conclusions.

What will I study?

A-Level Philosophy is divided into four core content areas and assessed across two exam papers. Paper 1 contains Epistemology, which the study focuses on knowledge, while also containing Moral Philosophy, which examines the standard ethical theories and debating whether they are successful or not. Whereas Paper 2 contains the metaphysics of God, which looks at God’s existence in detail while also including the metaphysics mind which is the study that covers the nature of human reality.

 What skills will I gain and where will this take me?

Some skills you’ll develop will be critical thinking, emotional intelligence and an overview of morality as the subject contains no specific answer allowing you to form your own views and challenge others - as long as you are able to justify it with evidence. Whilst doing so, you build your critical thinking and emotional intelligence to understand morality, God’s existence and human nature. Lastly, the most important feature about this subject is that it opens your mind to a lot of opinions and gives you the opportunity to see things from different perspectives, skills that can benefit you with any career you may pursue in the future. These skills are transferable into the career world and are highly valued by many universities when applying for popular courses such as law or politics.