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QUARTERLY Flashcards

1
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We can develop our ability
to critically on variety of
ideas and social issues.

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BENEFIT OF STUDYING
PHILOSOPHY

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Mainly focused
on answering questions
related to what is real.

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METAPHYSICS

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Focuses on reasoning
and sound argument

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LOGIC

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4
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objective
standards for determining
what is beautiful

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AESTHETIC

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5
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branch of
philosophy that deals with
knowledge

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EPISTEMOLOGY

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6
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synthesis of
knowledge and experiences
into insights that deepen
one’s understanding.

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WISDOM

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7
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known to have
happened or

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OPINION

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8
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PHILOSOPHY AND AREAS OF
INQUIRY

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ART
SCIENCE
POLITICS

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9
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deals with rightness
and wrongness of actions.

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ETHICS

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10
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branch of philosophy that is
concerned with the natural
environment and human beings
place within it.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

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11
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accumulation
of facts and information

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knowledge

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12
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analysis based from
facts, and is measurable
and observable.

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OBJECTIVE INFORMATION

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13
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Someone tries
to win support for an
argument or idea by
exploiting his or her
opponent pity.

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APPEAL TO PITY

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14
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It says
the notion is true because it
is not yet been proven false
and vice versa

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APPEAL TO IGNORANCE

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15
Q

A
proposition must be true
because many or most people
believe it.

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APPEAL TO PEOPLE

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16
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Attacking
the person who asserts the
argument to disprove his/her
claim. Attacking the person
being talked about to justify
the argument about him/her.

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AGAINST A PERSON

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17
Q

Double meaning
of a term or word. Confusing
meanings.

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EQUIVOCATION

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18
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Generalization based on
insufficient evidence.

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HASTY GENERALIZATION

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19
Q

Something is
true of the whole from the
fact that it is true of some
part of the whole.

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COMPOSITION

20
Q

Involves an
inference from the
attribution of some feature
to an entire class to the
possession of the same
features by each of its
individual members.

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DIVISION

21
Q

Committed
when one appeals to force or
the threat of force to bring
about the acceptance of a
conclusion.

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APPEAL TO FORCE

22
Q

Cause is
incorrectly identified.
Concluding one thing caused
another, simply because they
are regularly associated.

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FALSE CAUSE

23
Q

is the use of invalid or otherwise faulty
reasoning, or wrong moves in the construction of an
argument. It may be created unintentionally or they may
be created intentionally in order to deceive other
people.

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FALLACY

24
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Greatest and
wealthiest of Greek Cities

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MILETUS

25
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Known for boldy
using not-mythological
approach

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ANAXIMANDER

26
Q

One of the well-
known Western/Greek
Philosophers.

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SOCRATES

27
Q

Known for his theory
of DUALISM. This is the
theory that states that the
mental and the physical- or
mind and body or mind and
brain are distinct and
separable modes

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PLATO

28
Q

Known for his
theory of MONISM. This is a
theory that believes that
our soul cannot exist apart
from the body” or soul
cannot exist independently
of the body

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ARISTOTLE

29
Q

refers to the
relation of the self to the
object-oriented world, as
well as our concrete
relations with others.
Transcendence originated from
the words Trans, meaning “go
beyond”
, and scandare,
meaning “climb”
.

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TRANSCENDENCE

30
Q

The continuous cycle of
birth and death
(Reincarnation).

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SAMSARA

31
Q

Each and everyone needs to
be enlightened and we need
proper guidelines in
achieving them, this
signifies the state of
enlightenment & oneness
according to Brahman.

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MOKSHA

32
Q

Nature of Human Personhood
under Dharmic religions it is
important to be aware of what
are the actions that human
should have. It is the sum of
person’s action and a deciding
factor of fate in future
existence, this fate will
defend on what we are doing
whether it is good or bad.

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KARMA

33
Q

Things in our life that are
already given;
•Givens that was acquired
through birth
•Details that surround us in
the environment (ex.
Language, decisions etc.

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FACTICITY

34
Q

Our life here on earth has
its own expiration, the day
and the day when it will
come is truly unpredictable
in preparation what is does
mean finite quality of state
of existence (“we cannot
live forever”)

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FINITUDE

35
Q

The power that allows for
basics of existence–
nourishment, growth,
reproduction.

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VEGETATIVE SOUL

36
Q

Specific to human beings
only and is the soul
responsible for reason and
thinking.

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INTELLECTUAL/RATIONAL
SOUL

37
Q

Each and everyone needs to
be enlightened and we need
proper guidelines in
achieving them, this
signifies the state of
enlightenment & oneness
according to Brahman.

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MOKSHA

38
Q

Study of the relationships
between living organisms,
including humans, and their
physical environment

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ECOLOGY

39
Q

Refers to the structural and
functional unit of ecology. It
is defined as the interaction
between organisms and the
surrounding environment

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ECOSYSTEM

40
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Theory that implies that the
whole system cannot be
determined or explained by its
component parts alone. Parts
cannot exist independently of
the whole

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HOLISM

41
Q

A philosophical perspective
that implies that all living
organism including plants are
deserving of equal moral and
ethical considerations.

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BIOCENTRISM

42
Q

He is an Australian moral
philosopher for him humans
have moral obligation to not
cause or inflict pain to
animal.

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PETER SINGER

43
Q

a sub-discipline under
environmental philosophy that
studies the moral relationship
of human beings to the
environment.
HUMAN

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ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

44
Q

A philosophical perspective
affirming humans ability and
responsibility to lead ethical
lives towards personal
fulfillment

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HUMANISM

45
Q

A human centered philosophical
viewpoint arguing that human
beings are the central or most
significant entities in the
world.

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ANTHROPOCENTRISM

46
Q

A philosophical perspective
that holds that Earth’s ecology
and ecosystems (including its
atmosphere, water, land, and
all life forms) have intrinsic
value.

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ECOCENTRISM

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