Oral Final Flashcards
Empiricism
Knowledge is derived from SENSES
Rationalism
Knowledge is derived from REASON
Descartes
- “I think, therefore I am” or
“Cogito, ergo sum” - Perception is flawed
Kant
- There is a reality but all we have is perception
- merges both rationalism and empiricism
Locke
- “Clean slate” or “Tabula rasa”
- you can only get truth through senses he is an empiricist
Hume
- No right or wrong exists its all perception.
- All you have is senses
- Finished Locke’s thought
“Tabula rasa”
“clean slate”
Cogito Ergo Sum”
“I think, therefore I am”
Hegel
- Dialectic ( Thesis- Antithesis = Synthesis)
- You can’t trust reason… why evolutionary thought
- whatever is gets better you will never reach a final truth
Kirkegaard
One can not arrive at synthesis by reason alone. Rather, one achieves everything of real importance by taking a “leap of faith” to reach the upper floor
Line of despair
- Loss of absolutes or meta-narrative
- Only meaning is what I give it
Schleiermacher
- Can hope without the Bible
- you can know from the feeling within
- I feel therefore…
Upper and Lower Floor
-Upper Floor Concepts: Love,
Hope, Faith
-Lower Floor Concepts: The physical world, things you can see
Dead end reached (KANT)
-you can’t know anything but we must act as if we know
Thesis - Antithesis = Synthesis
Dialectic comprises three stages of development: first, a thesis or statement of an idea, which gives rise to a second step, a reaction or antithesis that contradicts or negates the thesis, and third, the synthesis, a statement through which the differences between the two points are resolved.
