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Midterm Vocabulary Terms Flashcards

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liberal arts

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free from labor, work, and external concerns

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Virtue

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power, excellence, and strength

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faith

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the acceptance of the word of the other

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logos

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word, reason, and theory

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Revelation

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revealing of some form of truth or knowledge

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Liber Scriptura

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scripture

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Liber Natura

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nature

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Magisterium

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what the pope says

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Reason

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the faculty of the mind to understand and form logical judgments

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Faculty

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power

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Discursive

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analytic

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Fideism

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faith resists and may even conflict with understanding, shut up and believe

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Pietism

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the cultivation of a pious sentiment

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Dogmatism

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expressing opinions as if they were established and invariable truths

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Falsifiable

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testing conclusions

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Superstition

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unfounded belief

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Fides Quaerens Intellectum

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faith seeks understanding

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Adequation

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truth is the correspondence between thing and understanding

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Skepticism

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knowledge is impossible

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Pessimism

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this is the worst of all possible worlds

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Data

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give in Latin, begs the question in science, data is the giver to beg the question

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Created

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the world as we view it, what was given by God, have faith in it

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Omnipotent

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all powerful

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Omniscient

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all knowing

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Omnibenevolent

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all loving/kind

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Postulate

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assumed to be true

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Materialist

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nothing exists except matter in movements and modifications

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Empirical

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truth based on observation, not logic

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Pragmatism

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the idea that science is true because it has worked before, practical application

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Presupposes

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what you have to know in order to understand something else

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Aesthetics

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appreciation and nature of beauty

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Philosophic

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love of wisdom

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Anthropology

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study of the human being

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Philosophic Anthropology

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study of what it means to be a human being

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Arche

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principle

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Metaphysics

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the study of the principles of reality that are nonphysical, study of the alternate predicates of reality

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Humanitas

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The soul constitutes the humanity of the human

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Essentialism

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something is understood through its essence

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Ontotheology

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theology of being, the union of metaphysics and theology

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Scholarch

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head of Plato’s school in ancient Greece

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Idealism

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truth based on logic, not observation

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A Posteriori

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Know only with experience

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A Priori

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Can know without experience

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Tyrant

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oppressive ruler

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Hegemon

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King in charge of other kings

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League of Corinth

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group of states that formed a league under leadership of Phillip II

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Lyceum

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the garden at Athens where Aristotle taught his philosophy

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Cosmology

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founded by Aristotle that talks about the origin of the universe

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Impiety

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talking bad about the gods, what Aristotle was accused of

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Eurymedon the Hierophant

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accused Aristotle of impiety

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Antipater

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a general, confident, and regional successor of Alex who dissolves Athenian democracy

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Corpus Aristotelicum

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works of Aritsotle

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Exoteric

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published works of Aristotle, were destroyed

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Esoteric

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private works and notes of Aristotle, are all we have left of Aristotle

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Andronicus of Rhodes

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published esoteric works of Aristotle

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Skill

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anything that brings about something else

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Agent

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actor

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Good

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achieve some purpose or end

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Practice

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concerns things that are done

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Science

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knowledge only concerned with itself

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Theory

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only concerned with itself

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Teleological

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telos + logos, organized by their purpose

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Final goal

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what you are striving to achieve, happiness

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Happiness

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the good we do for the sake of itself

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Self-sufficient

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complete happiness has its own end requiring no further end

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Political

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an art that aims at a good to enable a good state

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Political Animal

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all humans are this, we live in states, political comes from polis (states)

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Euclid

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math and geometry has an intrinsic value, Strobeaus’ student

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Technē

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brings about a product, skill

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Extrinsic

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good for something outside of itself

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intrinsic

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good for nothing but itself

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Political Science

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the art of governing humans

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Polis

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state

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Eudaimonia

A

happiness

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Fine

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what is noble and praiseworthy

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Hedon

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pleasure

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Contemplation

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speculation, thinking

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Education

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the process of becoming wise in some field

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Function

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Ergon, work, essence of something

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Analogy

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comparison of two things used for explanation

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Virtue

A

excellence

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Aretē

A

virtue in Latin

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Soul

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pneuma, breath

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Morphē

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shape and form

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Nutritive or Vegetative Soul

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growth, reproduction, nutrition

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Sensitive or Appetitive Soul

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includes desire

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Rational Soul

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includes thinking and reason

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Specific Difference

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essence

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Rational Animal

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Defines humans from the rest of animals

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Zoōn Logon

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the human being is the rational animal, animal holding reason

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Virtus

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strength, power, excellence

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Sub ratione boni

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under the ground of good

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Medea

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you cannot choose evil for the sake of evil, but for the sake of good

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Natural

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Phusin, given by nature

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Habituation

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forming of habits

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Mean

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the middle ground of deficiency and excess found through practice and activity

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Absolute

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cut off in relation to anything else

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Moral Virtue

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related to performing one’s functions freely and well

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Hyperbole

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excess

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Elleipsis

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deficiency

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Vicious

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Kakos, actions have no mean

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Axiologically

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higher or superior value

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