Philo 1 Flashcards

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“The unexamined life is not worth living

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Socrates

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“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”

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–Thomas Hobbes

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3
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“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”

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martin heidegger

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4
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The truth is up there

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Plato

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5
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The truth is here

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Aristotle

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6
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination

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Immanuel Kant

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7
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“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond experience

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John Locke

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“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum)

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Rene Descartes

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9
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“The root of evil is ignorance”

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Plato

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10
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“One cannot step twice in the same river”

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Heraclitus

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11
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I not only have a body; I am this body”

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Gabriel Marcel

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12
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“There is only one good; knowledge, and one evil; ignorance”

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Socrates

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13
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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

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Aristotle

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14
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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”

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Betrand Russell

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15
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“You can discover more of a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”

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Plato

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16
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“The only thing I know is I know nothing”

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Socrates

17
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“Anxiety and despair are essential to the human experience”

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Soren Kierkegaard

18
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“The truly brave man is one who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures”

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Democritus

19
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. “He who is unable to live in a society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god.

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Aristotle

20
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“Nothing is permanent except change”

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Heraclitus

21
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“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you do not know”

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Betrand Russell

22
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“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward”

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Soren Kierkegaard

23
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“Perception is not a state of mind but an organism’s entire bodily relation to its environment”

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Maurice Merleau

24
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“Human beings are, by nature, greedy and selfish”

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Thomas Hobbes

25
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“That man is the wisest who, like Socrates, realizes his wisdom is worthless”

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plato

26
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“Our character defines who we are”

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Aristotle

27
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“Genuine happiness is never a lifetime”

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Jean-Paul Sartre

28
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“Man is condemned to be free”

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Jean-Paul Sartre

29
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“Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone”

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Erich Fromm

30
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“The kind of problems we create in a society reflects much on how we cannot handle the insatiable desires or needs that we have”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau