Philosophy IV Chapter 1 (Lesson 3 and 4) Flashcards
The nature or the whatness of the person, that which makes her distinct from other beings; this is her identity.
Essence
It governs all people in the world.
Moral law
should not be an option because life lies on action.
Quietism
Man is ______, meaning, he acts according to his will; he is an authority to himself; he wills his actions freely.
Autonomous
He said that freedom is not an act of doing anything one wants.
Immanuel Kant
The totality of how a person has lived her life, from birth to death.
Existence
He endlessly rolls the rock up the mountain only to watch it roll down; it seems futile for the onlookers but for him, it is the pushing of the rock, his engagement and commitment with life that matters.
Sisyphus
It states, “Do good because it is the right thing to do.”
Categorical imperative
Man is governed by ______.
Reason
He said that you are abandoned to be free
Sartre
Freedom in ______: We can rely only on those things within our power of control and on the sum of possibilities that made our actions possible.
Despair
The only reason that makes a person, a rational being, act freely and to be in accordance to moral laws
Duty
______ to one’s appetite or emotion, which is doing what she wants, is not freedom.
Slavery
We have control over our ____ but we have no control over other things beyond our _____.
Will
A person is _______because she is always in the process of becoming.
Undefined
It states, “Do good if you want to be __________.”
Hypothetical imperative
Moral law is ______, meaning, applicable to all people.
Universal
In the end, you are the “master of your ____ and the captain of your ____”
Fate, soul
The existential condition of being thrown into one’s existence with nothing to cling to as guide.
Abandonment
Moral law is ______, meaning, people should completely obey it.
Absolute
Man has the obligation to obey the decrees of ______ (as a moral being).
Moral law
He said that man’s essence is his rationality, because it defines him and makes him unique from other beings.
Aristotle
Man has the obligation to obey the dictates of _______ (as an autonomous being).
His reason
