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Philosophy Flashcards

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Socrates

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Greece. Socratic dialogue, ethics, ostracized, killed with hemlock

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Plato

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Greece. “Ideals”, Platonic Ideals, forms, wrote about Socrates.

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Aristotle

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Greece. Physical science, set up academy, tutored Alexander the Great.

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Marcus Aurelius

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Roman Emperor. Stoicism, “Meditations”.

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St Augustine of Hippo

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Medieval North Africa. Original Sin, Importance of Grace, Holy Trinity.

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Thomas Aquinas

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Italy. Dominican Friar. Natural Law, “Summa Theologica”, Cosmological Argument (God exists because we exist), Model of Priesthood.

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Rene Descartes

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France. “Cognito, ergo sum”, Cartesian coordinates.

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Thomas Hobbes

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England. Leviathan.

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Niccolo Machiavelli

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Florence. The Prince, real politik.

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Immanuel Kant

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Germany. Categorical imperative.

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Gottfried Leibniz

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Calculus

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John Locke

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England. Father of liberalism, US. constitution, democracy, separation of C+S, religious freedom.

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Francis Bacon

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England. Father of scientific method, died in raw chicken + snow experiment.

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Voltaire

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France. Candide, imprisoned twice, satire, against monarchy and organized religion.

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Adam Smith

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Scotland. The Wealth of Nations.

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Karl Marx

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Germany. Das Kapital, The Communist Manifesto, worked with Fredrich Engels.

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Freidrich Nietzche

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Germany. Existentialism.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Switzerland. The Social Contract, Sincerity, Discourse on Inequality. Believed in majority rules democracy, and that people are born good and corrupted.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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France. Existentialist. Being and Nothingness. Open relationship w/ SdB.

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Simone de Beauvoir

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France. Existentialist. The Second Sex. Open relationship w/ JPS.

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Sigmund Freud

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Austria. Jewish. Father of psychoanalysis, dreams, subconsciousness.

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Confucius

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China. Golden Rule. loyalty, elder respect, family, influences Chinese thought today.

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Sun Tzu

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China. Art of War, strategy.

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Thomas Paine

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USA. Common Sense, The American Crisis, enlightenment amidst revolution.

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Henry David Thoreau

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USA. transcendentalist, nature, anarchy. A lot like Dom WIghtman. Walden, Civil Disobedience.

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