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PHI Final Flashcards

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Metaphysics

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The study of “ultimate reality”

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Epistemology

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The study of knowledge

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Philosophy

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The love of wisdom

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Ethics

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The study of moral problems

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Social and Political philosophy

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The study of the nature and origins of government and its affects on society.

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Logic

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The study of the rules of correct reasoning.

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Aesthetics

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The study of values, particularly art and beauty

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Thales

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Believed that water is the basic substance of all things.

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Anaximander

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Thought that particular “stuffs” emerged in pairs of opposites (hot-cold, dry-wet, hard-soft, etc.)

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Anaximenes

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Believed that the first, universal, underlying element is air, or pneuma.

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Heraclitus

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He said, “Change alone is unchanging.” Traditionally, it has been held that he went so far as to claim that everything is always changing all the time.

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Parmenides

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A monist who characterized the one real thing that underlies all reality as “being.” Also taught that change is only an appearance. In reality, there is no change.

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Empedocles

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Concluded that reality must be “completely full,” or a plenum without any gaps. Change comes form the two basic motions of love and strife.

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Anaxagoras

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Believed that change comes from Nous, or the “all-pervading Mind which imposes (brings about) an intelligible pattern in an otherwise unintelligible universe”

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Democritus

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Taught that things come into existence when atoms combine in certain ways, and they go out of existence when their parts or atoms separate.

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According to our text, Protagoras thought that behaving in a conventional way…

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…affords us the most social power.

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What is ethnocentrism?

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The idea that one’s own way is superior to all others

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What is relativism?

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The belief that knowledge is determined by the specific qualities of the observer

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According to Callicles, who has the natural right to dominate others?

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The superior and powerful individual

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How many books did Socrates write?

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0

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When he was on trial, what was Socrates accused of?

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Corrupting the youth of Athens

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According to Socrates, what is temperance?

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Indifference to pleasure

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According to Socrates, what is one of the chief reasons that people can’t think clearly?

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They don’t know what they’re talking about

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What is a techne?

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A special kind of knowledge about how to do something

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What is the socratic method?

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The method of guided questions in an attempt to draw the truth out of the pupil

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What was the name of Socrates’ wife?

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Xanthippe

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What was Plato’s real name?

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Aristocles

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(true or false) For Plato, the Forms are simply ideas in our imagination.

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False, Plato did not believe Forms are simply ideas in our imagination.

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For Plato, what are the three parts of the soul?

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reason, spirit, appetite

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For Plato, what is the most unbalanced personality?

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tyrant

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Who was the Nichomachean Ethics named after?

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Aristotle’s Son

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Who was Aristotle’s most famous pupil?

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Alexander the Great

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What are Aristotle’s four causes?

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material, formal, efficient, final

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For Aristotle, what are the three types of soul?

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vegetative, sensitive, rational

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According to Aristotle, how is a person happy?

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One is happy when one functions fully and well according to his or her nature

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According to Aristotle, which one of the following is NOT one of the elements?

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plastic

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(true or false) For Plato, the Forms are simply ideas in our imagination.

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False, Plato did not believe Forms are simply ideas in our imagination.

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What is hedonism?

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The philosophy that pleasure is the principle motive for living and that pleasure is always good

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What was the name of Epicurus’ school?

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Garden

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(true or false) The Cynics were known for their lavish lifestyles and for pursuing pleasure wherever they could find it.

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False

41
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What are the most influential therapies of today that are based on Stoicism?

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Reality therapy, rational-emotive therapy, logo therapy

42
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According to the textbook, what are Augustine’s most important works?

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Confessions, City of God

43
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According to Aquinas, what is the chief and only reliable source of knowledge of God and God’s ways?

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Revelation

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According to Aquinas, what is evil?

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Both A(Lack of goodness) and B(A necessary product of free will)

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(true or false) According to our textbook, Aquinas’s impact is only relevant to the Catholic Church.

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False

46
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(true or false) According to our textbook, Aquinas’s impact is only relevant to the Catholic Church.

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False

47
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What is the epistemological position in which reason is said to be the primary source of all knowledge?

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Rationalism

48
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According to Descartes, what is the only reliable way to discover the truth about the universe?

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Through a mathematically precise method

49
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Which of the following is an example of an ‘a priori’ idea?

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Triangles have three sides

50
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What is the only thing that Descartes thought that we could NOT doubt?

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That I am a thing that thinks

51
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According to our text, what is a skeptic?

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A person who demands clear, observable, undoubtable, evidence based on experience.

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What is empiricism?

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The epistemological position that all ideas can be traced back to sense data.

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What is Locke’s idea of the “tabula rasa?”

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The idea that our mind at birth was a completely blank tablet

54
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Berkeley was an idealist. This means that…

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the material world does not exist, only ideas exis

55
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What is Hume’s fact-value distinction?

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Facts themselves are valueless

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(true or false) Hume thought that the cause and effect relationship could be proven scientifically.

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False

57
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What is Kantian formalism?

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The idea that knowledge is the result of an interaction between the mind and sensation

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What is the phenomena and the noumena?

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The world as we experience it and the things as they exist independently of us

59
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What are Kant’s three transcendental ideas?

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Self, Cosmos, and God

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According to Kant, what is the source of morality?

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The capacity for reason

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What is Kant’s categorical imperative?

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Act as if the maxim of your action were to become universal law

62
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Which one of the following is referred to as Kant’s practical imperative?

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Act in such a way that you always treat people as ends, never as means to an end

63
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What are the “two masters” Bentham says shape all of human activity?

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Pain and Pleasure

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Which type of pleasure would Mill rank as the highest?

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Reading Fine Literature

65
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According to the author of our text, what was the fatal flaw of Bentham’s work?

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He didn’t consider the quality of pleasures

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According to our text, Mill argued that the principle cause of unhappiness is…

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Selfishness

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(true or false) Hume thought that the cause and effect relationship could be proven scientifically.

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False

68
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What are the main elements of Hegel’s dialectical process?

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Thesis, antithesis, synthesis

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What is the bourgeoisie?

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upper class

70
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For Marx, the main problems of society were…

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economic

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According to Marx, alienation results from what?

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the transformation of a human being into a commodity

72
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According to Marx, what makes something “work?” (“work” as in a job or career)

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how we relate to it

73
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Where did William James earn his PhD?

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Harvard medical school (????)

74
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One of William James’s chief purposes was to what?

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to be an advocate to convince a wide audience

75
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What is the pragmatic theory of meaning?

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the only difference between the meanings of words are how they test out in experience

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What is one of the main questions asked in the pragmatic method?

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What practical difference does it make to me?

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(true or false) For James, it is far better to believe passionately in a “lie” that it is to halfheartedly accept the “truth.”

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True

78
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By the end of his life, James equated truth with what?

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Usefulness

79
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What is existentialism?

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any philosophy that asserts that the most important philosophical matters involve fundamental questions of meaning and choice as they affect actual individuals

80
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Kierkegaard saw himself as a disciple of whom?

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Socrates

81
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Kierkegaard’s first important works were called “Either/Or” and “Repetition.” What did he hope to accomplish with these books?

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To reestablish his relationship with his former fiance

82
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According to Kierkegaard, what results in inauthenticity?

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When the nature and needs of the individual are ignored

83
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What did Kierkegaard mean by the “massing of society?”

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All of the above:

  1. The dimunition of the individual’s role in the face of mass production
  2. The pernicious influence of the press
  3. The loss of truth in the face of objectivity and abstraction
84
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Sartre thought that evil was…

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real and concrete

85
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What was the major difference between Sartre and Marxism?

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Sartre emphasized the individual while Marxism emphasized the collective

86
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Sartre thought that there is only one aspect in which we are not truly free. What is this aspect?

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We are not free not to be free

87
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Sartre thought that with awareness of freedom and responsibility come ______?

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Anguish

88
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Nietzsche saw himself as the first to recognize the symptoms of a profound sickness at the core of ______?

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Modernity

89
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What was Nietzsche’s nickname as a child?

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the little pastor

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What was one of the main things that Nietzsche learned from Schopenhauer?

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That life makes no objective, absolute sense

91
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What was Nietzsche’s purpose in writing Beyond Good and Evil and Toward a Genealogy of Morals?

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To destroy conventional morality and replace it with a higher “immoral” ideal

92
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According to Nietzsche, what is the basis for meaning?

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Aesthetic vision

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What is perspectivism?

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The view that every view is only one among many possible interpretations

94
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According to Nietzsche, what is the single goal of science, religion, and philosophy?

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The exertion of power

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What is nihilism?

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The belief that the universe lacks objective meaning and purpose

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What is Kantian formalism?

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The idea that knowledge is the result of an interaction between the mind and sensation

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