Month: December 2013

Updates?

These days – most of the RPE student activity seems to be on the Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/RPEglos/ – I would recommend a look at this for anyone who wants to get a real sense of what our students…

Buddhism, Ethics, Suffering and more..

Dr Dave Webster and Dr William Large talk about Ethics in Buddhism: Discover the RPE course : http://r-p-e.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-rpe-course.html 

Karma and Goodness

Karma and Goodness: Does one precede the other? In case you’re interested – there is more info about our Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at http://db.tt/jSEK5Qn4 – enjoy – Staff from the Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at University of Gloucestershire talking…

RPE Essay Competition Results:

Well – that was tough! We had over 30 essays for our competition – and there wasn’t a bad one among them. We were hugely impressed by the quality – and choosing a winner was very challenging. But…

More little videos

Is Reason better than (blind) Faith? http://wp.me/p2xWwL-66 Another of our short Philosophy of Religion videos.. There also some new videos about Buddhism on here -including one where Dr William Large asks me a bunch of difficult questions: https://uniofglos.blog/rpe/2013/12/11/buddhism-ethics-suffering-and-more/ 

Is Reason better than (blind) Faith?

Are we right to reject the idea of Faith, in the name of supporting our beliefs via rational grounds? In case you’re interested – there is more info about our Religion, Philosophy & Ethics course at http://db.tt/jSEK5Qn4 – enjoy –…

Essay Competition..

Just a quick update: We are currently judging the entries, and will publish the results (on this blog) on Friday 6th December..