Philosophy Flashcards
The term philosophy attributed to _________ as he is said to be the first to use it.
Pythagoras
The three classes of people by Pythagoras
-Lovers of gain
-Lovers of honor
-Lovers of knowledge or wisdom
they seek profit who sell their wares for money
Lovers of gain
they compete for honor
Lovers of honor
they neither seek profit nor compete for honor, they are the spectators who seek for the truth
Lovers of knowledge or wisdom
the fact or condition of being aware of something
knowledge
the correct application of knowledge
wisdom
literally means “after physics”
Metaphysics
literally mean “Study of knowledge”
Epistemology
study of the nature of reality
metaphysics
study of reasoning, ______ incorporates the analysis of the methods of deduction and induction
logic
Study how the person ought to act and the search for a definition of a right conduct and good life
ethics
the study of action
ethics
study of knowledge
metaphysics
comes from the Greek word aisthetikos, which means “sensitive” or “perceptive
aesthetics
study of art
aesthetics
people had already attempted to explain the origin of things and events or occurrences in nature
pre-philosophical
________ and ________continue the Miletian claim of a single, proper substance
Heraclitus and Xenophanes
he claimed the “unity of opposites”
Heraclitus
he claimed that there is a single God
Xenophanes
Western philosophy is said to have begun in the Ionic colonies of Asia Minor
Pre-socratic
known as the first Greek philosopher and the inquiry of searching for causes and principles of the natural world and various phenomena without relying on supernatural explanations and divine components.
Thales
The _________ believe that the cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers
Pythagoreans
he believed that the earth floats on water
Thales
they believe that nature can be quantified
Pythagoreans
Considered the most flourishing. This period was dominated by three famous philosophers- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
Socratic
He taught that knowledge through concepts was the only true knowledge-
Socrates
he has greatly influenced Western philosophical tradition through Plato’s Dialogues
Socrates
The philosopher in this period mainly had to answer the problem of how to save the intellectual and moral life of the nation, which was threatened by materialism and skepticism
Socratic
He concluded that the concept, or the idea, was the only true reality
Plato
His method focuses on analyzing phenomena or experience and proving credible opinions about these experiences to arrive at adequate proof.
Aristotle
________ is the science of the idea, or, as we should say, of the unconditioned basis of phenomena
Philosophy
Lack of general agreement on how the subjects of concern may be defined.
non-philosophical
Refers to the acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.
belief
________ is the aim of belief; falsity is a fault.
truth
The correspondence theory of truth states that the key to truth is the relation (correspondence) between propositions and the world.
Correspondence theory of truth
The coherence theory of truth states that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in it coherence with some specified set of propositions (or significant wholes).
Coherence theory of truth
“a belief is true if there exists an appropriate entity- a fact- to which it corresponds”
Correspondence theory of truth
Holds that a proposition is true if it is useful to believe it
Pragmatic theory of truth
similar to post-logic
Correspondence theory of truth
similar to logic
Coherence theory of truth
