Keywords Flashcards
Realism (acceptance)
Literal truth, means that universals exist of their own being. Awareness and acceptance of facts and life. The existence of things!!
Deontology (action)
Concerned with what people do, and not the consequences. An act cannot be justified if it produces good consequences. Focuses on value of human being.
Idealism (ideas)
Object of external perception or ideas. Virtuous life=high ideals
Transcendental realism (experience)
It is a special type of philosophical knowledge, concerned with the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience
Phenomenal world (experienced human understanding)
World is perceived and experienced through human understanding. Awareness, sensations, consciousness.
Noumenal World (understanding human senses)
Understanding of human senses–what it is rather than whatnot is perceived to be
Priori (accepted knowledge)
Knowledge without reference. Accepted without being thought about or questioned
Posteriori (experience knowledge)
Knowledge through experience
Synthetic statement (senses and exp.)
Knowledge based on sensory data and experiences. Truth value cannot be figured out based solely on logic.
Analytic statement (true by definition)
True by definition. Little informative value
Reason (common sense)
Capacity for logic, rational and analytic though. Eg. Common sense.
Sense experience.
Knowledge derived from human senses
Categorical (gut instincts. Norms)
Without exception yet following universal norms. Tell us what to do regardless of desires
Hypothetical (desires)
Tell you what to do to achieve a goal. Only apply to people who want to achieve something
Imperatives (instructions)
Tell us what to do
