Terms or schools of thought Flashcards
Scientific Knowledge
Based on SCIENTIFIF METHOD with careful research on RELIABLE and VERIFICABLE evidence
Scientific Knowledge associated with?
Rene Descartes
Solipsism
Only ourselves are real. Self can know nothing but its own verifications.
The self os only entity (existence, being) and can be known and verified.
Solipsism associated with?
George Berkeley
Cupiditas:
Spiritual will
Spiritual will:
Good intentions, ethical actions, restraint, virtue.
Caritas:
Carnal will
Carnal will:
Excessive desire, violence, and greed.
Who is associated with cupiditas/caritas:
Agustine
Tabula Rasa
blank/ clean slate. It was a theory that at birth humans has a clean slate.
Tubola rasa associated with:
John Locke
Empiricism
The pursuit of knowledge throughout OBSERVATION and EXPERIMENTATION.
Empiricism associated with:
John Locke, George Berkeley, and David Hume
Mind and Body problem:
The mind influences the body
Mind and Body Problem associated with:
Rene Descartes
Pneuma: First Pneuma
The brain (reason)
Second Pneuma:
The heart (emotions)
Third Pneuma:
Liver (desires)
Who is associated with Pneuma:
Galen
Positivism:
The doctrine that recognizes only NATURAL PHENOMENA or FACTS that are objectively OBSERVABLE
Positivism associated with:
Agustine Comte
Mechanism:
The doctorine that considers the facts of the universe to be sufficiently explained by the EXISTANCE and NATURE OF MATTER.
Who is associated with Mechanism:
Galileo Galilei
Hylomorphism associated with:
Aristole
Materialism
the facts of mental life can be explained in physical terms due to nature and matter
NATURE of MATTER.
-MATTER, ENERGY
Materialism associated with
Agustine comte
Idealism
The soul and the body are separate and independent of each other.
Materialism: air, water, fire …
- Material monism
-Anaxmenes- air
-Anaximander- water
-Heraclitus- fire
-Empedocles- fire, air, water
the soul is connected to the heart
-Alcameon- The soul is connected to the brain
-Democritus- The soul is made up of atoms of fire
Idealism associated with:
Plato
Hylomorphism:
Soul is the form but not the body itself
Hylomorphism three capacities:
Nutrition, Perception and reason
Material monism:
All things and developments including phycological processes have one similar orgin
Anaximander-
water
Anaximenes
air
Heraclitus
Fire
Empedocles:
Fire, air, water.
The soul is connected to the heart
Alcameon
The soul is connected to the brain
Democritus
The soul is made up of atoms of fire
Idealism by Plato has three dimentions of the world:
- Ideal world
- Material world
- Psychological
Idealism by Plato has three levels of the soul
- The brain (reason)
- Heart (emorions)
- Liver (desires)
Hylomorphism: +
matter + form
Hylomorphism is associated with:
Aristole
Epistemology:
Theory of knowledge.
Methods, validity and scope
Holism
Everything is connected in the world and body
Holism associated with:
China
Historiography:
- Peer reviewed: If our peer think its good, it helps.
- Controversy: Controversy gets publicity.
- Social status, prestige, power: If you have it you have an easier chance to get recognized.
- Gender and ethnicity: Men of European decent