HOP test 4 Flashcards
Claimed to want no greater epitaph on his tombstone than “the individual”
Soren Kierkegaard
widely considered to be the “father of existentialism”
Soren Kierkegaard
Much of Kierkagards writings were against whom?
Hegel
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leap of faith
Søren Kierkegaard Stages of Self Discovery
- Aesthetic Stage
- Ethical Stage
- Religious Stage
Aesthetic stage
Unfettered employment
Ethical Stage
Remorse and repentance
Religious Stage
responsibility towards God
Much of Kierkegaards writings were against whom?
Hegel
Stages of Self Discovery
- Aesthetic Stage
- Ethical Stage
- Religious Stage
Who was Karl Marx’s friend
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx is associated with what?
Economics and politics
Nietzsche morals
perspectivism, overman
Nietzsche and nihilism
rejection of morals and ultimate meaning, “God is dead.”
What is key according to Nietzsche?
The “will to power”
Wittgenstein established two philosophies in his time what were they?
- Picture theory
2. tool theory
Wittgenstein’s Picture theory definition
logic and language picture reality, mirror the world, meaning depends on the relationship a proposition has to reality; his earlier view.
Wittgenstein’s Tool theory definition
aka game theory meaning is determined by how we use words in normal speech, his later view.
Wittgenstein’s Analytical philosophy
(perhaps logical atomism in particular)
Wittgenstein sent what to who from prison camp?
he sent Tractatus to Russell from prison camp later presented it as PHD thesis.
Wittgenstein’s Vienna Circle and logical positivism
they loved the Tractatus, “verification principle”
According to Marx, factory workers like children are alienated from what? (four things)
1) the products they produce
2) their own work activities
3) themselves
4) each other
How does Marx feel about private property?
he doesn’t like it because it alienates people by dividing social classes
What is the origin of gods according to Marx?
an aberration of human minds - meaning that its not rationality that leads you to the idea of god
