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PHILSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE Flashcards

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the wisest of all men; likes to question and examine in debates; lived by, “the unexamined life is not worth living”

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Socrates

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student of Socrates that wrote about his ideas so that they live on; the soul is immortal and jumps from another body after death.

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Plato

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There are three souls according Plato’s dialogue “The Republic.”

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The Appetites
The Spirited
The Reason

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acts on desires

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Appetitive Soul

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acts on logic and intellect

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Rational Soul

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acts on mood or emotions

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Spirited Soul

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suggested that the soul is immortal but does not jump to another body but rather lives in the eternal realm with God; the body is an imperfect aspect of man

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St Augustine of Hippo

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Father of Modern Philosophy; believed that the mind is what shapes us; “I think, therefore I am”

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Rene Descartes

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concept that reality is divided into two parts: MIND and PHYSICAL BODY

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Dualism

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stated that the mind is tied to consciousness; a person keeps the same identity over time

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John Locke

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perception of what passes in man’s own mind; comprises one’s memories.

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Consciousness

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suggested that self is a combination of all the impressions and ideas that we have

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David Hume

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everything that originate from our senses

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Impressions

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faint images of thinking and reasoning based on impressions

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Ideas

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advocated rationalism; identified inner and outer self; empiricism

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Immanuel Kant

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“I sense therefore I am.”

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Empiricism

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reason over knowledge.

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Rationalism

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psychological state and rational intellect.

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Inner Self

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senses and physical world.

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Outer Self

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how we mentally digest new idea into old ones.

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Assimilation

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I act therefore I am; the mind does not exist; suggested that the application of the acquired information is necessary

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Gilbert Ryle

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suggested that physical brain = sense of self

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Paul Churchland

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coined the term neurophilosophy; stated that the brain and its biochemical properties are responsible for man’s thoughts

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Patricia Churchland

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belief that nothing but matter exists

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Eliminative Materialism

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reason and mental perception over physical senses and experience; an Empiricist; the physical body is a part of the self, not a prison house; mind and body are interconnected.

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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The kind of explanation early Greek philosophers of Miletus searched for

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Natural Explanations

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method for discovering what is essential in the world and in people; to get in touch with his true self or soul

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Socratic Method

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the goal of Socratic method

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to bring the person closer to a final understanding of the object/concept

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This was how the world came to know the philosophy of Socrates

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Through Plato’s writings

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What made Christian philosophers different from the Greeks in their view of human nature?

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They view man as sinners who do not want to follow God’s will

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This was how John Locke described the human mind at birth

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Tabula rasa: a clean/blank slate

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these are the contents of the human mind according to David Hume

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Impressions and Ideas

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The phrase used by Immanuel Kant to describe the experience of the self

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Transcendental apperception

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The structure of the mind, according to Freud, is primarily dependent on learning the difference between right and wrong.

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Superego

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The big 3 of philosophy

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Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

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In his explanation of the search for knowledge, which illustration was used by Plato?

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The Allegory of the Cave

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The primary philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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the human body is the primary site of knowing the world

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part of the mind that impacts strongly on the person’s observable behavior according to Freud

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Subconscious mind

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the ability to apprehend the direction of certain truths

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Intuition

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power to discover what is not known by the progressing in an orderly way; Truths are arrived at using a step by step process

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Deduction

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power to discover what is not known by the progressing in an orderly way; Truths are arrived at using a step by step process

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Deduction

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