(P) Lesson 1 (Book-based) Flashcards
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
Socrates
Only by knowing yourself can you hope to improve your life.
Socrates
Refers to the examination of one’s self
Self-knowledge
He believed that you as a person should consciously contemplate, turn your gaze inward and analyze the true nature and values that are guiding your life.
Socrates
Your real self is not even your body
Socrates
Your state of your inner being (soul/self) determines the quality of your life.
Socrates
According to Socrates, this kind of existence changs
Visible
According to Socrates, this kind of existence remains constant
Invisible
The goal of life is to be happy
Socrates
According to Socrates, this alone is the one and only supreme good that will secure his/her happiness
Virtue
This is defined as the moral excellence
Virtue
His philosophical method was what he identified as the “collection and division”; collect generic ideas and divide them
Plato
Plato’s theory that asserted the physical world not being the real world because the ultimate reality exists beyond the physical world
Theory of Forms
He claims that the soul us the mist divine aspect of the human being
Plato
The concept of divine is not a spiritual being but rather one that has an intellectual connotation
Plato
The element that enjoys sensual experiences according to Plato
The appetitive
Element that forbids the person to enjoy sensual experiences; the part that loves truth according to Plato
The rational
The element that is inclined toward reason but understands the demands of passion according to Plato
The spiritual
Gave Theory of Forms a Christian perspective
St. Agustine
Forms were concepts existing within the perfect and eternal God
St. Agustine
Soul held the Truth and was capable of scientific thinking
St. Agustine
The ascension of the soul with his assertion that everything related to the physical world belongs to the physical body
St. Agustine
He emphasized the use of reason to predict and understand natural phenomena based on observational and empirical evidence
Rene Descartes
He’s known for hyperbolical;/metaphysical doubt (methodological skepticism)
Rene Descartes
Being skeptical about the truth of one’s beliefs on order to determine which beliefs could be ascertained as true
Rene Descartes methodological skepticism
There is a thinking entity that is doing the act of doubting
Rene Decartes