Philosophy Flashcards
Myth
An ancient story often involving gods
Philosophy
Use of reason to investigate questions of knowledge, existence and ethics
Reason
Ability to use logic to solve problems
Thales
Thales of miletus is often regarded as the first philosophy
Ethics
How humans should live and which actions are morally right or wrong
Logic
Create rules for making good judgement
Epistemology
Knowledge and where knowledge comes from
Political philosophy
Government politics and laws
Aesthetics
The nature of art and beauty
Metaphysics
The nature and existence of things
Democracy
Where common people hold power
Justice
Fairness in the way people are dealt with
Good/evil
Good is morally right or beneficial
Ev8l harmful wicked or morally wrong
Socrates
Claimed that the unexamined life is not worth living
Allegory
A story which contains a hidden meaning
The forms
For plato, perfect and eternal patterns which are reflected in real world objects
Sense experience
The information and experiences gained through our sense
Plato
He believed that the things we see around us is distorted
Art
Expression of hunan creativity, such as painting, music film
Censorship
Suppressing or restricting free speech or access to material
Human rights
Basic entitlements and freedoms owed to all human beings
Citzen
Someone who lives in a state and who has rights not given to a non citizen
Demagogue
A politicians who appeals to people’s emotion and make false promises to win
Government
The system by which a state is controlled ir the group that controls a state