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philosophy exam Flashcards

1
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philosophers who evaluate the meaning of life

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socrates, plato, aristotle

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2
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a great teacher in athens around 468 BC. believes that onself is a condition to solve the present problem

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socrates

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3
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for a person to be happy, he has to live a virtious life

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happiness

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4
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is not something to be taught or acquired through education

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virtue

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5
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knowing what is in the mind and heart of human being

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self knowledge

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6
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does not mean only theoretical, but a practical one

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knowledge

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7
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does not only know the rules of right living, but ones live them

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practical knowledge

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8
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means wisdom, which in turn means virtue

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true knowledge

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9
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in the mind of plato means that the mind is in communion w/universal and eternal ideas

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contemplation

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10
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should contemplate the beauty that is absolute, simple, and everlasting

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humanity

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11
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the body is the source of endless troubles to us

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plato’s theory of immorality

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12
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for him everything in nature seeks to realize itself to develop potentialities

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aristotle

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13
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a greek word for “to become its essence”

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entelechy

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14
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objectives one really wants to achieve and define the project one wants to do in life

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know thyself and what you want to achieve

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15
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knowing your strengths and weaknesses

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know thyself

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16
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it is regarding what you want to achieve in life

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what you want to achieve

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17
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know thyself (sides)

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negative side, affirmative side, the unknown side?, public self

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18
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hidden self or public self

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negative side, affirmative side

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19
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the side others know about you but you are not aware of yourself

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public self

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20
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philosophers regarding the meaning of life and death (6)

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Friedrich Nietzche, Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Jaspers, Gabriel Marcel

21
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the first book of nietzche. analyzed the art of athenian tragedy.

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the birth of tragedy

22
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it means to motivate us “to look to our position in life for acceptance”

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lofty eyes

23
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his essays begins with the predicament of self with its struggles and its destiny

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Arthur Schopenhauer

24
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suffering is cause by

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desire

25
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in his analysis, human is exhibited in care

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Martin Heidegger

26
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threefold structure of care

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possibility, facticity, fallenness

27
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humanity gets projected ahead of itself

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possibility

28
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a person is not a pure possibility but a factical possibility

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facticity

29
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humanity flees from the disclosure of anxiety

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fallenness

30
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his philosophy is considered to be a representative of existentialism

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Jean-Paul Sartre

31
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Sartre’s Dualism

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En-soi ( in-itself ), Pour-soi ( for itself )

32
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the question that cannot be fully answered on human level

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what am i ?

33
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signifies the permeable and dense, silent and dead

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En-soi ( in-itself )

34
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the world only has meaning according to what the person gives to it

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Pour-soi ( for itself )

35
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the very core and the door to authentic existence

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freedom

36
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is understood in terms of finite temporality, which reaches with death

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care

37
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marcel’s phenomenological method

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primary reflection and secondary reflection

38
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this method looks at the world or any object as a problem, detached from the self

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primary reflection

39
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is concrete, individual, heuristic and open. this reflection is concerned not with the object but with its presence

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secondary reflection

40
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for marcel, philosophy has _ and _

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tension and harmony

41
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the essence of drama

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tension

42
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the essence of music

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harmony

43
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philosophy’s starting point is a _

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metaphysical disease

44
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_is freedom and God

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authentic existence (existenz)

45
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_ relates to us through limit situation (grenzsituation)

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transcendence

46
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jasper, resolutely oppose _ as on of germany’s very few christian intellectuals

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Nazism

47
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he was the first german to address the question of german’s guilt and humanity implicated by the cruelty of the holocaust

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karl jaspers

48
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claims that only by living through the nothingness of death in anticipation does one attain authentic existence

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Heidegger

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