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II Kaufmann - Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist Flashcards

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Dialectic

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Dialectic (de·a·LEC·tic): investigating or discussing the truth of ideas

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Dithyramb

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Dithyramb (DITH·y·ramb): an impassioned speech, poem, or hymn often dedicated to Dionysus

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Geist

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Geist (geíst): ghost, spirit

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Maculate

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Maculate (ˈma-kyə-lət): stained, impure

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Surd

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Surd (ˈsərd): irrational number; voiceless, whispered sound

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Apoteosis

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Apoteosis (ə-ˌpä-thē-ˈō-səs): the best part of something, climax; quintessence

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Aufhebn

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Aufhebn (AUF·hee·ben): Hegel - to preserve, cancel or even lift up, equal to Nietzsche’s sub-lim-ieren

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Epiphenomenon

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Epiphenomenon (ep·i·phe·nom·e·non): a secondary phenomenon that occurs alongside a primary phenomenon

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Hebatation

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Hebatation: to make blunt, dull, or stupid

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Monadology

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Monadology: Leibniz - a metaphysical system that interprets the world as a harmonious unity of monads

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Ontology

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Ontology (än-ˈtä-lə-jē): a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of being

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Teleology

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Teleology (tel·e·ol·o·gy): viewing phenomena in terms of the purpose they serve rather than of the cause from which they arose

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Uberwindungsmotiv

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Uberwindungsmotiv: overcoming motif

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Atavism

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Atavism (at·a·vism): a tendency to revert to something ancient or ancestral

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Ideogram

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Ideogram (ˈi-dē-ə-ˌgram): a picture or symbol used to represent a thing or an idea

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Mendacity

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Mendacity (men·dac·i·ty): the act of not telling the truth, to lie

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Non plus ultra

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Non plus ultra (neu-plaz-ultra): the highest point attainable; don’t go beyond this point

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Noumenal

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Noumenal (nou-mé-nal): the opposite of phenomenon; that which exists independently of human sense or perception

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Amphitryon

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Amphitryon (am-fit-tree-uhn): King of Thebes and husband of Alcmene (alk MEE nee)

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Casuistry

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Casuistry (KAZ-yoo-is-tree): sophistry, unsound reasoning

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Chandala

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Chandala (chan-dah-la): untouchable, Indian of low caste

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Ephexis

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Ephexis (eh-fek-ease): to hold back, wariness; the opposite of ‘ease’

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Hyperborean

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Hyperborean (hy·per·bo·re·an): inhabitant of the extreme north; from Greek mythology

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Proprium

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Proprium (pro·pri·um): an attribute

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Sirocco

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Sirocco (sir·roc·co): hot wind blowing from North Africa across southern Europe

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Nadia Alexandra Gárate Santos

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La profesora que exige demasiado al estudiante Gerardo! :)

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