Philosophy Flashcards
The science of correct reasoning
Logic
The science of the study of God
Theodicy
The science of study of man in relation to his own destiny, God and to his Fellowmen
Philosophy of Human Person
A science of principles governing human relations
Social Philosophy
The science of inanimate objects
Cosmology
The science of Human Behavior
Psychology
The study of existence or reality
Metaphysics
The science of the theory of knowledge
Epistemology
The science of morality of human act
Ethics
The science of art and beauty
Aesthetic
Deals with what people actually believe (or made to believe) to be right or wrong, and accordingly holds up the human actions acceptable or not acceptable or punishable under a custom or law.
Descriptive Ethics
Focuses on the rightness or wrongness of the actions rather than the consequences of those actions
Duty Ethics
Deals with norms or set of considerations how one should act.
Normative Ethics
It’s a study of ethical actions and sets out the rightness or wrongness of the actions.
Normative Ethics
The morality of an action is contingent with the outcome of that action.
Teleological ethics
The Father of Western Philosophy
Thales
Philosophy that is largely spiritual in nature
Eastern Philosophy
Philosophy that is quite practical
Western Philosophy
He concluded that the fundamental substance must be air
Anaximenes
He believed everything is made of 4 elements: fire, water, air and earth.
Empedocles
Concluded that the fundamental substance of reality is the infinite or apeiron
Anaximander
Permanent in this world is change and uses the flames of fire to emphasize the idea of change.
Heraclitus
The cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers
Pythagoras
He believed that there is no motion
Zeno
Zeno’s 2 main Ideas:
Achilles and the Tortoise
The Arrow Paradox
- uses logic and reasoning
- used in European Countries
- individualism
Western Philosophy
- more subjected to interpretation
- used in Asian Countries
- collectivism
Eastern Philosophy
Is known for coining the term Philosophy
Pythagoras
Formulated the positive conception of freedom as the free capacity for choice
Immanuel Kant
The world is made up of water
Thales
Said that the facticity of a human life that cannot choose what is already given about itself
Jean Paul Sartre
Philosophy is a vision
Friedrich Weismann
A British philosopher, there are three characteristics of a Philosophical questions.
Isaiah Berlin
Happiness is the ultimate criterion to establish what of moral and what is not
John Stuart Mill
Freedom and obligation are two indispensable conditions for morality to occur.
John Mothershead
