Definitions Flashcards
Why do sentient beings have moral value?
Sentient beings have moral value because the ability to sense life includes the desire to continue living. Because the actions of others can influence or affect sentient beings, questions of right or wrong will and must come into play.
What’s the difference between sentience and conscience?
Sentience is about feeling; conscience is about moral judgment.
What’s the difference between consciousness and sentience?
Sentience is about feeling; consciousness is about thinking and awareness.
What’s the difference between morality and ethics?
Morality is how we treat others. Ethics is how we ought to live.
What is philosophy?
The study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, reason, and reality through critical thinking and rational inquiry.
What’s the difference between the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious?
Conscious: What your mind is actively aware of (thoughts, feelings, actions).
Subconscious: The semi-aware mind; stores memories, habits, and automatic responses that influence behavior without active thought.
Unconscious: The deep, inaccessible mind holding repressed memories, instincts, and desires that shape behavior indirectly.
What is consciousness?
Awareness of one’s own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
Define ‘I’.
Someone aware of possessing a personal individuality.
What is sentience?
Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive, or experience subjectively.
What is solipsism?
The theory that only the self exists, or can be proven to exist.
Define Metaphysics
A division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being, including ontology, cosmology, and often epistemology.
Metaphysics analyzes the generic traits manifested by existences of any kind.
Define Manichaean.
A noun referring to a person who believes in a religiously or philosophically dualistic worldview, often contrasting good and evil.
What is the history and etymology of ‘Manichean’?
Late Latin manichaeus, from Late Greek manichaios, from Manichaios Manes, Persian founder of the sect, who died about a.d. 276.
What is Postmodernism?
Postmodernism is a cultural, artistic, and intellectual movement that rejects grand narratives and absolute truths, embracing ambiguity, irony, and fragmentation instead.
What is Modernism?
Modernism is an artistic and intellectual movement that emphasizes innovation, rationality, and progress, often breaking from tradition to reflect the modern world’s complexities.
What is Realism?
Realism is an artistic and literary movement that portrays everyday life and society with truthful, unidealized detail, focusing on ordinary people and their struggles.
Based on broad scholarly consenus, what are generally accepted start-and-end dates for Realism?
1840s-1890s
Based on broad scholarly consenus, what are generally accepted start-and-end dates for Modernism?
1890s-1950s
Based on broad scholarly consenus, what are generally accepted start-and-end dates for Postmodernism?
1950s-2000s
What is Post-postmodernism?
Post-postmodernism is a cultural shift after Postmodernism that seeks sincerity, meaning, and connection, often blending irony with earnestness while rejecting pure skepticism.
Based on broad scholarly consenus, what are generally accepted start-and-end dates for Post-postmodernism?
1990s-2020s
What is Metamodernism?
Metamodernism is a cultural movement that oscillates between Modernism’s earnestness and Postmodernism’s irony, combining sincerity with playful self-awareness to navigate a complex, fragmented world.
Based on broad scholarly consenus, what are generally accepted start-and-end dates for Metamodernism?
2000s-2020s
