all philosphers Flashcards

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According to the Florida State University, the term “philosophy” means

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love of wisdom

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Who was the first person (philosopher) to use the term “philosophy”?

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phythagoras

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People who are studying philosophy;

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philosphers

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phythagoras is known for his work?>

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phythagorean theorem

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engaged in a systematic questioning about the self

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socratic method

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Every human person is?

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dualistic

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dualistic is composed of?

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BODY AND SOUL

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

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socrates

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Instead, Socrates famously maintained that our true self is

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our soul

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moral excellence, and an individual is considered virtuous if their character is made up of the moral qualities that are accepted as virtues.

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VIRTUE

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is the necessary and sufficient condition for one to become virtuous.

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KNOWLEDGE OF THE ANTURE OF VIRTUE

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people fail to become virtuous and instead commit evil acts

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ignorance

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Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.”

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plato

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One of the most dazzling writers in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging, and influential authors in the history of philosophy.
Student of Socrates

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plato

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Plato conceives of the self as a?

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knower

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15
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what is the highest form of cognition.

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rational soul

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the material and destructible part of human person

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body

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the immaterial and indestructible part

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soul

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18
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are three components of the soul

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rational, spirited,apetitive

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most superior of all elements, is composed by reason and intellect

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rational

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in charge of emotions

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spirited

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base desire

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apetitive

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The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance.”

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st. augustine

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He was the Bishop of Hippo

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st. augustine

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humans are good because we are created ?
images and likeness of God
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He believed that God was the Supreme Being (in hierarchy of being) and all other links in the great chain of being were dependent.
st. augustine
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the supposed power or capacity of humans to make decisions or perform actions independently of any prior event or state of the universe.
free will
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knowing about something
cogitare
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understanding
scire
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Communion with God
death
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Father of Modern Philosophy.
Rene descartes
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He wrote ?
meditations of first philosphy
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focused on modern empiricism and political liberalism
john locke
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His most important work
Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Book 1
He argued in that our knowledge is not innate.
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book 2
All our ideas come from experience.
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Book 3
He focused on language. According to him, language is often a challenge or an obstacle to understanding and offers recommendations to avoid confusion.
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Book 4
He argues that knowledge has a special kind of relations between ideas and that we should regulate our beliefs accordingly.
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A person’s mind is a blank state
tabula rasa
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Self is cannot be found in body or soul, but is found in ?
consciousness
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an empiricist
david hume
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key sources of knowledge.
senses and knowledge
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He believes in the existence of the mind that is divided into two
impressions and ideas
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the self is?
a bundle or collection of different perceptions
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are real or actual experiences or sensations.
impressions
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– copies of impressions or representation of the world and sensations.
ideas
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Rationalist
immanuel kant
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chief source and test of knowledge.
reason
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The fundamental idea of Kant's “critical philosophy”
human autonomy
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He proposed that we should instead focus on the observable behavior of a person in defining the “self
gilbert ryle
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He somehow rejected the idea that a man is a?
dualistic
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his best known and most important work
the concept of mid
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it is best understood as a pattern of behavior,
self
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For Ryle, what truly matters is the ?
behavior
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philosophy of mind and neuroscience
paul churchland
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One of his main ideas is the?
rejection of traditional conceptions of the self, which he argues are based on outdated and unsupported assumptions
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the body as the primary site of knowing the world,
MAURICE MERLEAU PONTY (1908-1961)
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encompassed in a physical body.
self and perception
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Father of Psychoanalysis
sigmund freud
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- consists of those things we could pay conscious attention to if we so desired, and where many memories are stored for easy retrieval. Ex: tip of the tongue effect
Preconscious
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- is the awareness of the self in space and time
Conscious
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Which is governed by pleasure and seeks immediate gratification.
id
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consists of those things that are outside of conscious awareness, including many memories, thoughts, and urges of which we are not aware.
unconscious
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Which is concerned with making rational decisions. reality principle
ego
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Which makes moral judgments. Moralistic and Idealistic principle
superego