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The Concept of the Human Person. Flashcards

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“The unexamined life is not worth living”

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Socrates

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“The life of man (in a state of nature) is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”

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Thomas Hobbes

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“He who thinks great thoughts, often makes great errors”

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Martin Heidegger

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“The truth is up there”

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Plato

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“The truth is here”

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Aristotle

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“Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”

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Immanuel Kant

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“No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience”

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John Locke

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“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum).

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René Descartes

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“The root of evil is ignorance”

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Plato

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“One cannot step twice in the same river”

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Heraclitus

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“There is only one good; knowledge, and one evil; ignorance”

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Socrates

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“I not only have a body; I am this body”

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Gabriel Marcel

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“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong”

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Bertrand Russell

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“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”

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Aristotle

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“You can discover more of a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”

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Plato

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“Anxiety and despair are essential to the human experience”

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Soren Kierkegaard

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“The only thing I know is I know nothing”

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Socrates

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“Nothing is permanent except change

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Heraclitus

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“He who is unable to live in a society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must either be a beast or a god

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Aristotle

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“The truly brave man is one who overcomes not only his enemies but his pleasures”

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Democritus

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“Perception is not a state of mind but an organism’s entire bodily relation to its environment”

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Maurice Merleau

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“Life must be understood backward. But it must be lived forward”

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Soren Kierkegaard

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“Science is what you know. Philosophy is what you do not know”

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Bertrand Russell

24
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“Genuine happiness is never a lifetime”

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Our character defines who we are”

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Aristotle

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“That man is the wisest who, like Socrates, realizes his wisdom is worthless”

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Plato

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“Human beings are, by nature, greedy and selfish”

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Thomas Hobbes

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The kind of problems we create in a society reflects much on how we cannot handle the insatiable desires or needs that we have”

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

29
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“Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone”

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Erich Fromm

30
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“Man is condemned to be free”

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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