PHILOSOPHY HELP
Higher Philosophy
There are now 'Key Knowledge Guides' on each of the following pages. If you found our N5 organisers useful, you'll love them.
We're planning to increase the content on this site and plan to launch these resources throughout the 2024/25 session.
This unit builds on the things you will have been taught in National 5 but it is incredibly more useful as you consider more common types of argument and how to work out if you should be persuaded by them.
Like in the other units, moral philosophy gets a lot more exciting at Higher. It's not enough to know some criticisms, we now get to work out how much damage they do and why. This is where we start really doing philosophy!
In Higher, the alternative accounts of Hume and Descartes get even more interesting. How does Descartes start building certain knowledge? Why does Hume think we must be much more cautious about what we can know?