Philosophy Flashcards

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The science of correct reasoning

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Logic

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The science of the study of God

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Theodicy

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The science of study of man in relation to his own destiny, God and to his Fellowmen

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Philosophy of Human Person

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4
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A science of principles governing human relations

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Social Philosophy

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5
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The science of inanimate objects

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Cosmology

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6
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The science of Human Behavior

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Psychology

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7
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The study of existence or reality

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Metaphysics

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8
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The science of the theory of knowledge

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Epistemology

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9
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The science of morality of human act

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Ethics

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10
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The science of art and beauty

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Aesthetic

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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.

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Descriptive Ethics

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Focuses on the rightness or wrongness of the actions rather than the consequences of those actions

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Duty Ethics

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Deals with norms or set of considerations how one should act.

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Normative Ethics

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It’s a study of ethical actions and sets out the rightness or wrongness of the actions.

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Normative Ethics

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15
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The morality of an action is contingent with the outcome of that action.

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Teleological ethics

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16
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The Father of Western Philosophy

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Thales

17
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Philosophy that is largely spiritual in nature

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Eastern Philosophy

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Philosophy that is quite practical

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Western Philosophy

19
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He concluded that the fundamental substance must be air

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Anaximenes

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He believed everything is made of 4 elements: fire, water, air and earth.

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Empedocles

21
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Concluded that the fundamental substance of reality is the infinite or apeiron

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Anaximander

22
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Permanent in this world is change and uses the flames of fire to emphasize the idea of change.

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Heraclitus

23
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The cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers

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Pythagoras

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He believed that there is no motion

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Zeno

25
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Zeno’s 2 main Ideas:

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Achilles and the Tortoise
The Arrow Paradox

26
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  • uses logic and reasoning
  • used in European Countries
  • individualism
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Western Philosophy

27
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  • more subjected to interpretation
  • used in Asian Countries
  • collectivism
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Eastern Philosophy

28
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Is known for coining the term Philosophy

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Pythagoras

29
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Formulated the positive conception of freedom as the free capacity for choice

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Immanuel Kant

30
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The world is made up of water

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Thales

31
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Said that the facticity of a human life that cannot choose what is already given about itself

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Jean Paul Sartre

32
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Philosophy is a vision

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Friedrich Weismann

33
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A British philosopher, there are three characteristics of a Philosophical questions.

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Isaiah Berlin

34
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Happiness is the ultimate criterion to establish what of moral and what is not

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John Stuart Mill

35
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Freedom and obligation are two indispensable conditions for morality to occur.

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John Mothershead