Ch24 - Pages 359 - 362 Flashcards
Conservatism
The principle or practice of conserving (preserving) established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them.
What is the Bible in terms of conservatism ?
It is the most powerful conservative force through the ages.
Positivism
Nothing can be known except observable scientific “facts”
Auguste Comte
Invented and taught positivism; coined the term “sociology”.
Sigmund Freud
Formulated a system known as psychoanalysis.
Psychoanalysis
Subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man’s actions.
Behavioral psychology
Denies man’s sinful nature by reducing man to the status of an animal or machine.
Ivan Pavlov, J. B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner
Separately developed behavioral psychology.
Pragmatism
The philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations.
Existentialism
The “anti-philosophy” which claims that there is no truth or reality.
Soren Kierkegaard
“All that man can do is take a leap of faith into the great unknown in hopes of achieving some kind of reality.”
Frederick Nietzsche
Said that, “God is dead” and there were no absolute values except “the will to power”.
John Dewey
Developed progressive education.
Traditional education
Passing on traditional knowledge from generation to generation; the complete opposite of progressive education.
Secularism
The belief that matters of morality should be based on consideration of the well-being of mankind in this present life.
