Relgion Flashcards
Define Immanet
Close by or within the universe
Define Empiricist
Which philosopher support this idea?
Coming to conclusion through observation and experiments
Aristotle
What’s a rationalist
Who’s an example of this?
Coming to conclusions only using reasons
Plato
Did Aristotle believe knowledge was a priori or a posteriori
A posteriori
Did Plato believe knowledge was before experience or after? Use the right terms
A priori
Define transcendent
Outside or beyond the universe
What is it meat by idealist?
Who is a famous example of this?
Belief the universe is more than material parts and there is a spiritual level
Plato
Define materialistic and who is an example of this?
There is nothing more to the universe other than material it’s made of and there’s no life afte death
Aristotle
Define simple
Unable to be broken down into different parts and unable to change.
What did Plato and Aristotle think of innatism?
Plato agreed with this idea of previous knowledge Aristotle believed in tabula rasa ( blank slates)
What’s platos idea of “a one”
A simple transcendent who exists outside of the universe that is unchanging and shapeless
What’s Aristotles idea of the “prime mover”
Was outside of the universe and was the prime sustainer of the universe and kept it going.
Why was Plato and Aristotle’s idea of a transcendent begin so influencing to Christians?
As Christian’s realised it shared similar chareristics as God so they combined this with the bibles veiws