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Movements Flashcards

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Anarchy

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Government is evil.
Zeno
William Godwin
Emma Goldman

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Causality

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All actions have specific reactions.

Astrotle

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3
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Collectivism

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Humans are just a subject of society.
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels

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Conservatism

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Individual and minimal intervention of government.
Edmund Burke
Thomas Hobbes
Leo Strauss

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Cynicism

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People are evil
Antisthenes
Diogenes
Zeno

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Determinism

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All events are predetermined
Jonathan Edwards
John Calvin

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Egalitarianism

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All people are created equal

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Empiricism

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Experience is the only source of knowledge
John Locke
David Hume

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Epicureanism

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Value is measured in happiness

Epicurus

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Existentialism

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It is up to the individual to determine his or her own meaning and purpose.
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Martin Heidegger

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Fatalism

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All events are determined by fate
Oswald Spengler
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Free will

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All events are determined by fate

Christian sects

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13
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Hedonism

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Value = pleasure
Aristippus
Epicurus

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14
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Idealism

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Value = mind over matter
Immanuel Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Individualism

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Society is essentially the sum of its individuals
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine

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Liberalism

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Defense of individual freedom is the purpose of government
John Locke 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
John Stuart Mill 
John Dewey
17
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Libertarianism

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The right to freedom from restraint trumps all other rights

Herbert Marcuse

18
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Materialism

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Value is measured by material goods in matter
Democritus
Thomas Hobbes

19
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Meritocracy

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Government by blues with the greatest ability

20
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Nihilism

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Value and meaning do not exist

Mikhail Bakunin

21
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Oligarchy

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Government by the few

22
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Plutocracy

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Governed by the wealthy

23
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Positivism

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Scientific observation is the only source of knowledge
Auguste Comte
Rudolf Carnap

24
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Pragmatism

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Value is measured by whatever works
William James
John Dewey

25
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Rationalism

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Deductive reasoning is the only source of knowledge
René Descartes
Benedict Spinoza

26
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Realism

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Reality consists of universals that humans see in a perfectly as specifics
Plato
Pierre Abélard

27
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Relativism

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I’ll points of view or equally valid truth is subjective
Nietzsche
Ludwig Wittgenstein

28
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Skepticism

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Oh no that should be viewed with doubt
Pyrrho
Arcesilaus

29
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Transcendentalism

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Spiritual feelings in the process of thought are our only source of knowledge
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Bronson Aleott

30
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Utilitarianism

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Where are you is measured by usefulness for the group
Jeremy Bentham
John Stuart Mill

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