Philosophy Final Flashcards
The human mind is at first nothing but a tabula rasa- a blank slate
John Locke
The key account of human history is the class struggle which will eventually end in the collapse of the capitalist system
Karl Marx
Saw “civilized” society as corrupting of individual character; influential in education, advocating a kind of “natural education”
John-Jacques Rousseau
The inventor of utilitarianism; “felicific calculus”
Jeremy Bentham
Known for his skepticism, denied induction as a way of knowing
David Hume
God is dead.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Qualitative versus quantitative hedonism
John Stuart Mill
Universally regarded as the father of modern European philosophy
René Descartes
His philosophy has affinities with Buddhism
Arthur Schopenhauer
French existentialist philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Existence precedes essence
Jean-Paul Sartre
Contemporary philosophers refer to his rationalist epistemology as a form of “classical foundationalism”
Rene Descartes
“Act only according to the maxim by which you can at the same time will it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant
Vehemently opposed to Christianity and Christian morality
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cogito ergo sum- I think therefore I am
Rene Descartes
The mind gains all its materials “from EXPERIENCE.”
John Locke
Argued for women’s equality grounded in the view that family is the basis of society
Mary Wollstonecraft
Act so as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only.”
Immanuel Kant
Known for his “commonsense” philosophy sometimes called Scottish Realism
Thomas Reid
The father or grandfather of the American Revolution
John Locke
