Movements Flashcards
Anarchy
Government is evil.
Zeno
William Godwin
Emma Goldman
Causality
All actions have specific reactions.
Astrotle
Collectivism
Humans are just a subject of society.
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
Conservatism
Individual and minimal intervention of government.
Edmund Burke
Thomas Hobbes
Leo Strauss
Cynicism
People are evil
Antisthenes
Diogenes
Zeno
Determinism
All events are predetermined
Jonathan Edwards
John Calvin
Egalitarianism
All people are created equal
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Empiricism
Experience is the only source of knowledge
John Locke
David Hume
Epicureanism
Value is measured in happiness
Epicurus
Existentialism
It is up to the individual to determine his or her own meaning and purpose.
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Martin Heidegger
Fatalism
All events are determined by fate
Oswald Spengler
Arthur Schopenhauer
Free will
All events are determined by fate
Christian sects
Hedonism
Value = pleasure
Aristippus
Epicurus
Idealism
Value = mind over matter
Immanuel Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Individualism
Society is essentially the sum of its individuals
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Liberalism
Defense of individual freedom is the purpose of government John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Stuart Mill John Dewey
Libertarianism
The right to freedom from restraint trumps all other rights
Herbert Marcuse
Materialism
Value is measured by material goods in matter
Democritus
Thomas Hobbes
Meritocracy
Government by blues with the greatest ability
Nihilism
Value and meaning do not exist
Mikhail Bakunin
Oligarchy
Government by the few
Plutocracy
Governed by the wealthy
Positivism
Scientific observation is the only source of knowledge
Auguste Comte
Rudolf Carnap
Pragmatism
Value is measured by whatever works
William James
John Dewey
Rationalism
Deductive reasoning is the only source of knowledge
René Descartes
Benedict Spinoza
Realism
Reality consists of universals that humans see in a perfectly as specifics
Plato
Pierre Abélard
Relativism
I’ll points of view or equally valid truth is subjective
Nietzsche
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Skepticism
Oh no that should be viewed with doubt
Pyrrho
Arcesilaus
Transcendentalism
Spiritual feelings in the process of thought are our only source of knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Bronson Aleott
Utilitarianism
Where are you is measured by usefulness for the group
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill
