Lesson 7 Flashcards
What comprises the multi-lateral interactions among global systems, local practices, transnational trends, and personal lifestyles?
globalization
What Period is sometimes referred to as the Dark Ages because of the highly developed systems of Roman law when the government gave way to the rude forms of the barbarians?
Early Medieval Period
Amid the chaos during the Middle Ages, what institution stood for the common good whose spirit and work comprise the “great civilizing influence of the Middle Ages”?
Roman Catholic Church
What is Socrates’ main idea of good living?
Know thyself
Which of the following is NOT a result of technological advancement?
Many people have transferred from cities to provinces to be able to work.
What period belongs almost wholly to the 17th century. The philosophy of the first age lived in a world where there are these 2 things:
1. that nature is full of facts which conform fatally to exact and irreversible law.
2. that human beings live best under a strong, benevolently dictatorial civil government?
naturalism
Which form of society uses techniques to produce and cutivate plants more efficiently?
Agricultural
What did Aristotle say about friends?
Friends are 2 bodies with 1 soul
Which of the following are Socrates’ major ethical claims?
Happiness is impossible without moral virtue.
Unethical actions harm the person who performs them more than the people they victimize.
What are the 3 classes of citizens according to Plato?
The common people (artisan class)
Soldiers (warriors)
Guardians (rulers)
God did not create man as a “solitary being” but a “social being”
TRUE
Rather than being ourselves, we tend to conform to an
image or idea associated with being a certain type of person.
Soren Kierkegaard
Age of modern philosophy turned curiously back to the study of the wondrous inner
world of humanity’s soul. Human nature is the most interesting, and is not yet deified.
Age of Empiricism in the 18th century:
main exponents of this general point of view.
John Locke, Hume,
and Berkeley
“Knowing and accepting ourselves are important ingredients in
establishing boundaries.”
The author believes that whatever path we will tread, our
choices should ultimately be based on our genuine freedom.
Joy Carol