Test 1 year 9 Flashcards
who said “The unexamined life is not worth living”
socratese
Who said “As for me all I know is that I know nothing”.
socreatese
What did Socrates think of how people lived?
He saw the citizens of Athens sleepwalking through life, living only for money, power, and fame so he became famous trying to help them. He believed that we needed to reflect on our lives and ask questions about how and why we should live our lives.
immanent meaning
Immanent – God is present and involved in the world
transcendent
Transcendent – God is beyond and outside life on earth
personal
Personal – God is an individual who you are able to have a relationship with
Impersonal
Impersonal – God has no human characteristics more like a force.
Omnipotent
Omnipotent – God is all powerful
Omnibenevolent
Omnibenevolent – God is all loving
Omniscient
Omniscient – God is all knowing.
Omnipresent
Omnipresent – God is all everywhere
What did plato say
He said ‘Man is a being in search of meaning’.
What does platos cave analogy explain
lato’s Analogy of the Cave explains how Plato felt we were doomed to accept things as fact unless we deliberately tried to challenge them.
Doxa
to think for yourself
eudaemonia
to flourish in life
how did plato say we can flourish in life
think harder – use their ‘doxa’ (think or themselves) rather than following the crowd. He told people to love wisely – improving the person you love so they can become the best they can be. He said we can learn from beauty which can inspire us, they are a model of what we could become if we tried. He also had ideas on how to change society such as children being brought up by trained specialists not parents, only being able to vote if intelligent and only respecting people who are intelligent.
what is the original sin
christian explanation for the origin of evil and suffering in the world.
why do humans choose to do wrong
This idea suggests that humans are born with an inbuilt tendency to do wrong.
where in the bible does the original sin come from
This idea is introduced in the story of Adam and Eve, who sinned against God by breaking an instruction not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
moral evil?
evil which is created by humans – e.g. robbery, racism and murder
Natural evil
Natural Evil is evil which is not created by humans, but instead occurs in nature – e.g. earthquakes, disease and hurricanes
what is the problem of evil
if God is all powerful, loving and knowing. How do Christians explain why there is evil and suffering in the world.
who said “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
Bishop berkely
rationalism
The theory that knowledge is gained through reason.
empiricism
The theory that knowledge is gained through our five senses.
materialism
is the belief that the only thing that exists is physical matter and the movement of this.
what is dualism
is the belief that humans have both a body and another separate, invisible part as a mind or soul.
“Idealism” or “immaterialism”
the view that reality consists exclusively of minds and their ideas.
materialism
Objects (matter) exist independently of the mind
why did Descartes doubt everything
Descartes decided to doubt everything because he wanted to know what is actually real and not an illusion.
