Philosophy Flashcards
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philosophy
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to study the means by which we think about anything: concepts
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what is a philosophers goal?
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the philosophers goal is to arrive at a special sort of definition of concepts in question
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metaphysics
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the area of philosophy concerned with what is real and what is possible (reality/being)
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ethics
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to think in terms of “what is goodness?” and “what is wrong?”
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political philosophy
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to think in terms of “what is justice?”
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materialism
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the view that only matter is real; anything that seems to be real but not matter is ultimately matter
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idealism
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holds that ultimately reality is composed of ideas, whether our own or ideas in the mind of god
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normative
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thinking in terms of what might love become? what should it be?
