Philosophy Flashcards

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What is philosophy?

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-Study of acquiring knowledge through rational thinking and inquiries
- Answering questions about the nature of man and word
- Philo means “love”
- Sophia means “wisdom”

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Socrates

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-Dualist
- human choice was motivated by the desire for happiness
- Ultimate wisdom comes from knowing oneself

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3
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“Know thy self” for you to know what makes you happy

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Socrates

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4
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Plato

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  • student of socrates
  • soul exist before and after death
  • dualist
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5
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3 elements of soul

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Rational soul (truth and uses logical thinking)

Appetite( basic needs and bodily desires)

Will ( emotion, passion and spirit)

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Saint Augustine

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Aurelius Agustinus

Knowledge of our true self requires knowledge of our divine origin

Knowing god is equal to knowing ourselves

Dualist

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7
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Discursive thinking

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Moral and intellectual perfection

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8
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Intuitive self awareness

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Consciousness and identity of self

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Rene Descartes

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His argument is known as Cogito

If he is capable of doubting, then he must exist

The essence of mind, which he describes in terms of doubting, affirming, judging

Our mind is considered as substance

Dualist

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Substance

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Something that is capable of existing independently.

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Cogito ergo sum

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I think therefore I am

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12
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John Locke

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Personality identity is a matter of psychological continuity

“Empty Mind” or Tabula Rasa which is shaped by experience and sensations and reflections

Dualist

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13
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David Humes

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No mind or self

Argues passions as determinants of behavior

Also appears as beheviorist believing that human learns as lower animals

Idea of self is not any one impressions

Dualist

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Immanuel Kant

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Aiming to justify a conviction in physics as a body of universal truth especially in immortality and free will

Dualist

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15
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2 components of the self

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Inner self ( souls are objects of inner self)

Outer self (bodies are objects of outer self)

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16
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Sigmeund Freud

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Had the most controversial theory

Dualist

17
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Psychoanalysis

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Act based on sexual urges

18
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Foundation of psychoanalysis

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Sex ( Eros)

Aggression ( Thanatos)

19
Q

Id

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Pleasure principle

Fantasies, imaginations

20
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Ego

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Reality principle

Finding a way to become real

21
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Superego

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Moral principle

Between right amd wrong

22
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Oedipus

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Killed his father to be wedded to her own mother

23
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Oedipus Complex

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He has sexual urges right after the baby is born

Lalaki

24
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Elektra Complex

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She has sexual urges right after she is born

Babae

25
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Hypnosis

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For pschoyheraph and used as a medicine for human

26
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Placebo Effect

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When you believe in something for a long time it will come true

27
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Psychosomatic

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Mind to body

28
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Somatopsychic

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Body to mind

29
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Gilbert Ryle

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Dualist

Only I am able to perceive and experience the states and processes of my own mind

30
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2 collateral histories

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  1. What heppen in and to his body PUBLIC
  2. What happens in and to his mind PRIVATE
31
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Paul Churchland

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We need to develop a new vocabulary that will enable us to communicate and think clearly.

32
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Eliminative Materialism

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Develop new neurosciencw based vocabulary that will enable us to think and communicate

33
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Maurice Merleu-Ponty

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Not a dualist

Our living body is a natural synthesis of mind and biology

34
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Self

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Something that one creates not find

35
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Self understanding

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About being aware of and understanding one’s own actions