Philo Flashcards
the founder of ford motor company, was one of the pioneers in providing workers with better working conditions and wages
Henry Ford
the act of asking questions in order to gather or collect information
Inquiry
presupposes biospheric egalitarianism which assumes that all living things possess equal value and intrinsic worth regardless if their usefulness or utility to other beings
Deep ecology
it is a product of our interaction with our world
Self consciousness
French philosopher and mathematician who developed the coordinate plane and its quadrants
Rene Descartes
Greek philosopher, ______’s division of worlds – the world of ideas and the world of senses. Another important idea in _____’s concept of a human being is the soul’s division into three parts
Plato
the world of ideas and the world of senses.
Plato’s division of worlds
allows us to recognize the other, and recognize what the other might love been going through
Empathy
counterpart in the human body is the head, which symbolizes the reason part
Rulers
counterpart in the chest, which symbolizes the appetitive part
Soldiers
– was Plato’s famous student. Like Plato, ______ also believes that human beings are composed of body and soul. ______ considers things as composed of 2 co-principles which he calls matter and form
Aristotle
is an offshoot of the movement against domination of existing hierarchical structures in society that pre-empt the development of the full nature of an individual, from his first and second nature
Social ecology
a reaction against the male domination and the corresponding oppression of women
Ecofeminism
is from the Latin solus, which means alone and ipse, which means self. Thus it is a philosophical perspective that considers the self alone as the only thing certain, and the only basis of reality
Solipsism
an orderly harmonious systematic universe
Cosmos
French existentialist, who considers 2 ways of reflection, which he calls primary and secondary reflection
Gabriel Marcel
German philosophy, who calls human being Dasein, a German word which literally means being there. Heidegger’s concept of being-in-the-world inform us of the very nature of who we are, that is, that we are shaped by everything around us
Martin Heidegger
List of Important organizations who take initiatives in preserving our environment
- Unoted Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- Kyoto protocol, Montreal Protocol, Basel Convention
- UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
occurs when we inquire about things in a distant and objective manner
Primary reflection
cannot occur without involving the inquirer into his inquiry
Secondary reflection
Three modes which I relate according to Martin Buber
- I-I type of relationship
- I-It type of relationship
- I-Thou type of relationship
Two sides of struggle for self-recognition
- Prevailing side
- Submitting side
– is an element added by the manufacturers into their product _____ adds little to nothing to the tradition notion of use value of a commodity. _______ refers to the manufactured culture crated by the advertising industry about the product
Sign value
refers to the worth of the commodity based on its utility
- Use value
refers to the worth which a commodity can be traded for
- Exchange value
early forms of transactions are done by trading items or _____
- Barter
is an item available in the market- a product
- Commodity
