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Chaoter 1 Flashcards

1
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Define Cosmology

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Study of physical universe considered as a totality of phenomena in time and space

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2
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Who were the stoics?

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Group from a Greek school of philosophy. Believe that God determined everything for the best and that urge is sufficient for happiness.

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Define empiricism

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Experience is the only source of knowledge

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4
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Define rationalism

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Reliance on reason is the best source for knowledge

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5
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3 philosophers from empiricism

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Locke
Berkeley
Hume

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6
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3 philosophers from rationalism

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Descartes
Spinoza
Leibniz

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Define epistemology

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Branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, it’s extent, and validity

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8
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What is the triad according to st. Augustine

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Being
Knowledge
Will

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9
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Who said “the dialogue of the soul with itself”

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Plato

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10
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“Philosophy begins in wonder”

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Aristotle

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11
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“Knowledge is power”

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Francis bacon

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12
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Who wrote the leviathan

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Hobbes

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13
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Thought is “the dialogue of the soul with itself”

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Plato

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14
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Who wrote a treatise of human nature

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Hume

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15
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Who wrote ethics

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Aristotle

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16
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“The unexamined life is not worth living”

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Socrates

17
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Who wrote critique of pure reason

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Kant

18
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Who wrote the Republic

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Plato

19
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“Philosophy begins in wonder”

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Aristotle

20
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“Man is also one of the objects concerning which we reason”

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Hume

21
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Charged with corrupting the youth of Athens

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Socrates

22
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Student of Socrates

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Plato

23
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The study of the order of the world

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Cosmology

24
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Roman cosmologist saw everything in the universe composed of atoms

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Lucretius

25
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Developed analytic geometry

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Descartes

26
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These philosophers taught about the logos and the natural law

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Stoics

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