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Philosophical Perspective Flashcards

1
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What happened in 600 BCE?

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Birth of Philosophy or love for wisdom

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What greeks searched for and came up?

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Knowledge and answers that are both cognitive and scientific in nature

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Study of change led to

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idea of permanence

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seek natural explanations to events and phenomena around them

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Greek Philosophers in Miletus

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observed changes in the world and wanted to explain these changes

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Greek Philosophers in Miletus

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What early philosophers sought to understand?

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the nature of human beings, problems of morality and life philosophies

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Mentor of Plato

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Socrates

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Socrates wanted to discover?

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essential nature of knowledge, justice, beauty, and goodness.

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Socrates’ thoughts which are in Plato’s writing

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The Dialogues

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Asking questions and engage the person in a discussion

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Socratic Method

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Someone should be

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Skilled in detecting misconceptions and revealing them by asking right questions.

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The goal of the Socratic Method

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bring the person closer to the final understanding

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“The mission in life is to seek the highest knowledge and convince others who were willing to seek his knowledge with him.”

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Socrates’ View of Human Nature

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the soul helps a person get in touch with his or her?

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True Self

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15
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Inner Goodness

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Virtue

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16
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forces people to use their innate reason by reaching inside themselves to their deepest nature.

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Socratic Method

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17
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Aristocles as real name

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Plato

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18
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Established the Academy

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Plato

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19
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Plato’s Metaphysics

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Theory of Forms

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20
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Refer to what are real

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Forms

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21
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objects that can only be grasped intellectually, not merely by senses.

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Forms

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Characteristics of Forms

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  1. Ageless or Eternal
  2. Unchanging or Permanent
  3. Unmoving and indivisible
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Plato’s Dualism

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The Realm of Shadows

The Realm of Forms

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  • Composed of changing, sensible things which are lesser entities and therefore imperfect and flawed.
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The Realm of Shadows

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Composed of eternal things which are permanent and perfect. It is the source of all reality and true knowledge.

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The Realm of Forms

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26
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Knowledge lies within the person’s soul.

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Plato’s View of Human Nature

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27
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Human beings as microcosms of the universal macrocosms.

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Plato’s View of Human Nature

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28
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Component of Soul that is rational and motivation of goodness and truth.

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Reason

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29
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Component of Soul that is non-rational and is the will or the drive toward action

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Spirited

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30
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Component of Soul that is irrational and lean towards the desire for the pleasures of the body.

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Appetites

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31
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People are blank. Sometimes, however, judgments are made in blank and blank equal to evil.”

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Intrinsically good

Ignorance

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32
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People see shadows of reality only and they believe as real and as knowledge.

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The Allegory of the Cave

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33
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Blank are not real, but Blank are the only real

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Shadows

Forms

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34
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According to Plato, It begins with a feeling of something lacking

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Love

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35
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Blank is a process of seeking higher stages of being

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Love

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36
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Concern were God and Relationship with God

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Christian Philosphers

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37
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According to Christian Philosophers, blank and blank were the ultimate goals of man

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Self-knowledge

Happiness

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38
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Sees man as basically good and becomes evil through ignorance of what is good

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Greek Philosophers

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39
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Sees man as sinners who reject/go against a loving God’s commands.

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Christian Philosophers

40
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Man is capable of knowing the blank, which is God

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Eternal Truths

41
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Who is within man and transcends man?

42
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St. Augustine’s View of Human nature

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God as the source of reality and truth

The Sinfulness of man

43
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What is the cause of sin or evil?

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Act of freewill

44
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Can be achieved through the grace of God

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Moral Goodness

45
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when a man loves the wrong things

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Disordered love

46
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“For God is love and he created humans for them to also love”

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The Role of Love

47
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Love for physical objects leads to

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Sin of greed

48
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Love for other people is?

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Not lasting

49
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Excessive love for people leads to

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Sin of Jealousy

50
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Love for the self leads to

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The sin of people

51
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Love for God is?

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The supreme virtue

52
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How does man find real happiness?

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Only through loving God

53
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Who said that Soul is within the Body and the body needs a soul?

54
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A life-changing event according to Aristotle

55
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Father of Modern Philosophy and one of the Rationalist Philosophers of Europe

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Rene Descartes

56
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Two powers of Mind

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Intuition

Deduction

57
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the ability to apprehend direction of certain truths.

58
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the power to discover what is not known by progressing in an orderly way from what is already known.

59
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According to Rene Descartes’ View of Human nature, a thing that doubts, understands, affirms, denies, wills, refuses and also imagines and feels.

60
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The body is like a machine controlled by the will and aided by the mind.

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Mind-Body Problem

61
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According to who?knowledge results from ideas produced posteriori or objects that were experienced

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John Locke

62
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Objects are experience through senses

63
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The mind looks at the objects that were experienced to discover relationships that may exist between them.

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Reflection

64
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ideas are not innate but rather the mind at birth is a blank slate or neutral called?

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Tabula Rosa

65
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According to Locke’s View of Human Nature, it depends on the conformity of a person’s behavior towards some law

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Moral Good

66
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According to Locke, what law where praiseworthy actions are virtues and those are not are vices?

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Law of Opinion

67
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According to Locke, what law where right actions are enforced by people in authority

68
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According to Locke, what law where set by God on the actions of man

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Divine Law

69
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He relied on the scientific method, believing that it could analyze human nature and explain the workings of the mind.

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David Hume

70
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Two types of perception according to David Hume

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Impression and Ideas

71
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Type of perception that immediate sensations of external reality

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Impression

72
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Type of perception which is defined as recollections of the impressions

73
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Three principles of patterns of thinking

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  1. The principle of resemblance – repetition
  2. The principle of contiguity – continuation
  3. The principle of cause and effect – causation
74
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According to David Hume’s View of Human Nature, self is?

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a product of imagination

75
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According to David Hume’s View of Human Nature, there is no such thing as blank behind perceptions and feelings that come and go; there is blank self.

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personal identity

no permanent/unchanging self

76
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Founder of German Idealism and wrote a critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical reason, and Critique of Judgment.

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Immanuel Kant

77
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Mind is not a blank of sense experience but rather blank in knowing the objects it experiences.

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passive receiver

actively participates

78
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According to Kant’s View of Human Nature, what is the experience of the self and its unity with objects?

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Transcendental Apperception

79
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Who introduced Psychodymanic theory has characteristics of philosophical thought?

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Sigmund Freud

80
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Structure of the Mind according to Sigmund Freud that is based on the pleasure principle

81
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Structure of the Mind according to Sigmund Freud that is based on the reality principle

82
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Structure of the Mind according to Sigmund Freud that is dependent on learning the difference between right or wrong

83
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Blank or Life Instinct; the energy is called Blank and urges necessary for survival like thirst, hunger, sex, etc.

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Eros

Libido

84
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Blank or Death Instinct; behavior that is directed towards destruction

85
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Who contradicted Cartesian Dualism?

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Gilbert Ryle

86
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According to Ryle, it is a type of knowledge that uses facts in the performance of skills or technical abilities

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Knowing-How

87
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According to Ryle, it is a type of knowledge that knows facts

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Knowing That

88
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Blank is worthless if not used to solve practical problems

89
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Coined the term Neurophilosophy

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Patricia Churchland

90
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They sought to guide scientific theorizing with philosophy

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Patricia & Paul Churchland

91
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responsible for the identity known as the self

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Man’s brain

92
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Aims to explore the relevance of the neuroscientific studies to the philosophy of mind

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Neurophilosophy

93
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responsible for thoughts, feelings, and behavior

94
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According to Churchland’s view of human nature, • The self is blank, that it is the tool that helps the person blank to the realities of the brain and the extent reality.

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real

tune in

95
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Philospoher of the body

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Maurice Merleau–Ponty

96
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According to Ponty, The world and the sense of self are blank in the ongoing process of man’s becoming.

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emergent phenomena

97
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According to Ponty, Blank is a process that includes sensing as well as interpreting/reasoning.

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Consciousness

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