Core final Flashcards
Who wrote Nicomachean Ethics?
Aristotle
Who wrote “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Albert Camus
Who wrote “No Exit”?
Jean-Paul Sartre
Who wrote Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
Who wrote Social Contract?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who wrote Who Are We?
Louis P. Pojman
Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
Karl Marx
Who wrote The Critique of Pure Reason?
Immanuel Kant
Who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams?
Sigmund Freud
Who wrote the Leviathan?
Thomas Hobbes
Who wrote Lord of the Flies?
William Golding
- Born in 1809 to a wealthy family
- Interested in nature
- Studied medicine
Charles Darwin
True/False
The idea of evolution was completely new in Darwin’s time
False
-The fossil record
-embryonic replication
-vestigial organ
-biochemical characteristics
Are all evidence for…
Darwinian evolutionist
-Imperialism
-Laissez-faire economics
-Neglect of the poor
-Racism
-Eugenics
Are all used to justify what….
Darwinian sociology
True or False
This is the basic idea: humanity gradually evolved over time by natural selection through chance (through genetic mutation) and necessity from less developed life forms. While individual points of evolutionary theory are challenged and the exact formulations qualified, the idea/edifice as a whole has withstood the assaults of criticism for nearly 150 years
True
For a pleated a dynamic psychology that transforms energy within the personality of what is this called
Psychoanalysis
True/False
According to Freud free will is an allusion
True
The name of Freud’s theory is
Pansexuality
What revolution did Freud inaugurate?
The sexual revolution
3 Components to Freud’s idea of personality
1) Id
2) Ego
3) Super Ego
True/False
Darwin was excited to publish his findings especially because he enjoyed shaking of the religious faith in people
False
Who was Alfred Russell Wallace?
Reinforced Darwin’s natural selection theory
True/False
Darwin was able to confirm his theory of natural selection by experimenting on monkeys and crocodiles in the Galapagos Islands
False