Prelim MOD 1 : Lesson 1 Flashcards
He is credited for his many contributions to western philosophy
Socrates
Socrates was high regarded by ______
Plato
An ancient Greek aphorism which means Know Thyself by Socrates
Gnothi Seauton
What are Socrates techniques in asking questions?
Who am I?
What is the purpose of my life?
What am I doing here?
What is justice?
It means knowing one’s degree of understanding about the world and knowing one’s capabilities and potentials
Self Knowledge
_____ is achieved and something to work on
Self
Possesion of knowledge is ____ and ignorance is ____
virtue , vice
Socrates is a ______
Dualist
Socrates believed that man has ______ which is divine,immoral,intelligible,uniform,indissoluble, and ever self-consistent and invariable.
Soul
For the ____, according to Socrates, is human,mortal,multiform,unintelligible,dissoluble and inconsistent.
Body
_____ is the release of the soul from the body
Death
The soul controls these emotions and actions through _____ and ____
Proper Judgement , Reason
An ancient Greek Philosopher, student of Socrates
Plato
Plato was the teacher of?
Aristotle
Give the 2 idealism of Plato
Empirical Reality
Ultimate Reality
In this reality we experience the experiental world is fundamentally unreal and is only a shadow or mere appearance
Empirical Reality
This reality is real as it is eternal and constitutes abstract universal essences of things
Ultimate Reality
Plato added that ___ are ___ of the intellect known by reason alone and are ______ that exits in a world of their own.
Ideas, Objects, Objective Realities
Plato was one of the first philosophers who believed in an ______ that is represented by the soul
Enduring Self
The existence of past and future for St.Augustine is only possible through ____ and ____
Memory , Expectations
TRUE or FALSE
As long as the consciousness can be extended backward to any past action or forward to actions to come, it determines the personality of the person
False, Identity
A french philosopher and mathematician who allegedly never left bed before 11 am, an inventor of analytic geometry and Cartesian Coordinate System
Rene Descartes
It became one of the important idea in psychology which pertains to the inquiry of the soul then of the mind,consciousness and thought
Introspection
TRUE or FALSE
Humans have self-consciousness because of the superiority of humans over other organisms
True
Rene Descartes was the tutor of ______ of ______
Queen Christina of Sweden
Aphorism of Rene Descartes
Cogito,Ergo Sum ( I think, therefore I am)
For Rene Descartes, he believed that the self is?
“A thinking thing or a substance whose whole essence or nature is merely thinking”
TRUE or FALSE
Western Philosophy is largely influenced by Descartes
True
For Descartes, the self is nothing else but a mind-body _____
Dichotomy
_____(mind) always precedes _______ (body)
Thought, Action
They are Canadian-American philosophers whose work has focused on integrating the disciplines of philosophy of mind and neuroscience in a new approach that has been called Neurophilosophy
Paul and Patricia Churchland
“A radical claim that ordinary,common sense understanding of the mind is deeply wrong and that some or all of the mental states posited by common sense do not actually exist”
Eliminative Materialism
Common Sense is something that is TRUE
False
Most people think that we have a stream of consciousness that contains images and conceptions of things about which we have beliefs and attitudes
Folk Psychology
For the Churchland’s self is nothing else but the ____, or simply, the self is contained entirely within the physical brain.
Brain
In Patricia Churchland’s book she mentioned that to understand the self one must study the ____,not just the ___
Brain, Mind
A french phenomenological philosopher, born on March 14, 1908
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Maurice Merleau-Ponty distinguished the body into 2 types which are?
Subjective Body
Objective Body
Aphorism of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
“I am my body”
TRUE or FALSE
Consciousness is both perceiving and engaging
True
TRUE or FALSE
Mind and Body are not correlated
False, they are essentially correlated
