Exam 3 (philosophy) Flashcards

1
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Sartres’ characterization of a persons refusal to accept him/herself…

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Bad Faith

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2
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those people who continue to argue that mental events and physical events are wholly separate…

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Dualists

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3
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Sartres term for the totality of facts that are true of a person at any given time..

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Facticity

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4
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What is most essential to individual human existence in Christianity, that aspect of the person that survives death

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soul

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5
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The problem that seems to follow from the view that we know only our own minds directly

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egocentric predicament

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6
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The characteristics that make a person that particular person

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Essential self

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7
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The theory that mental events are identical to certain processes in the brain

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functionalism

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8
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the view that we can know only of the existence of our own minds

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solipism

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9
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similarity, comparison

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analogy

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10
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The way you characterize yourself…

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self-identity

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11
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in the existentialism, the genuine, individual self identity to be distinguished from the inauthentic merely role playing the public identity.

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authentic self

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12
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Going against the rules of reason

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irrational

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13
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The thesis that there are no mental events…

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behaviorism

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14
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the belief that every event has its cause (or causes)

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principle of universal causality

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15
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Freedom from all constraints (which is impossible)

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absolute freedom

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16
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The application of our rationality to practical problems…

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practical reason

17
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The freedom to utilize one’s potential

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positive freedom

18
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determinism uncompromised, unqualified.

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Hard determinism

19
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the thesis that both determinism.. and free action can be true

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compatibilism

20
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the thesis that at least some events in the universe are not determined

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indeterminism

21
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the belief that a person is capable of making decisions that are not determined by antecedent conditions

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free will

22
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the view that every event in the universe is dependent upon other events that are its causes.

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determinism

23
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the freedom from constraints

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negative freedom

24
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the thesis that accepts determinism… A persons character will allow us to call his/her actions “free”

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soft determinism

25
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The thesis that mental events and physical events are the same…

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identity theory