mst philo Flashcards
philosophy means
love of wisdom
philo means____
sophia means____
love
wisdom
deals with nature and everything that exists
metaphysics
proposed that everythings was made out of water
thales (624-546 BCE)
deals with knowledge and knowing
epistemology
deals with how we live and act
value theory
deals with moral principles
ethics
deals with principles of beauty and artistic rate
aesthetics
someone who said that a man is a rational animal
aristotle 384-322BCE
the use of arguments also called premises
logic
often said to start from the general and end with the specific
deductive argument
characterized more by their predictive power
inductive argument
piece of art that uses symbols to convey a hidden or ulterior meaning typically a moral or political one
allegory
episteme means
knowledge
logos means
study or discourse