The Philosophers Flashcards
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Epicurus
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- founded highly influential school of philosophy
- Proper attitude for happiness
- ethical philosophy for simple pleasure, friendship and retirement
- encouraging
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Anne Water
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- creation of thought
- “mind is nature amplified”
- Indigenous
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Hypatia
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-Greek Astronomer and mathematician
-prominent thinker in Neoplatonic School in Alexandria where she taught philosophy and astronomy
Math
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Helene Cixous
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- French Feminist and writer
- critical theorist
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Anne Walter
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- from the Uk
- politician and activist
- mind is exemplified and always changing
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Lao Tzu
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- natural life free of desires
- Chinese philosopher and writer
- Taoism religion and philosophy in Ancient China
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Sun Tzu
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- art of war
- military strategist
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Zeno
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- pre-socratic Greek philosopher
- paradoxes of logical and mathematical
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Democritus
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- Ancient Greek Presocratic Philosopher
- created atomic theory of the universe
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Socrates
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- greek philosopher credited for western philosophy
- philosophy should contain practical results for the greater well being of society
- first moral philosopher in the ethical theory of thought
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Plato
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- Athenian Philosopher during the classical period
- founder of the platonist school of thought and the academy
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Diogenes
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- peeing, masturbating, taking dumps in the street
- holding a lantern to the faces of people in Athens claiming that he was searching for an honest man
- extremely nasty
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Aristotle
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- Greek philosopher
- polymath in the classical period
- founder of lyciem
- first genuine scientist
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Malcolm X
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- civil rights activist
- “a man who stands for nothing will fall for anything”
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Rumi
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- Persian Iranian
- theological poet
- music poetry and dance and a path for reaching god
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Helena Blavatsky
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- Russian Jewish
- founded theosophical society
- WW2
- french feminist critical theorist
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Susan Wolf
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- freedom within reason
- works in ethics philosophy of the mind
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Shankaracharya
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-spirituality through the soul and god
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Aquinas
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theologist that believes that science and religion coexist
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Occam
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the simplest answer is the right answer
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Rebecca
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reason over religion, god is a part of the world
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Bacon
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Pioneer in the scientific revolution of thought
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Bharadwaj
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Vedic sage with medicine, idea influences India
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Locke
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father of liberalism, life, liberty and property
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Julia Kristeva
- Bulgarian philosopher
- author and linguistics professor
- detective novels
- psychology, psychoanalysis
- semianalysis- combination of semiotics (language) and psychoanalysis
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Kant
- Russian
| - everyone has the right to make decisions from the truth
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Natalie Wynne
-philosophy is an erotic art
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Gandi
-freed Indians from colonial British rule
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Bentham
-utilitarianism morality that advocates actions of happiness rather than ones that don't make you happy or cause you harm
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Mary Wollstonecraft
- one of the first rational feminist
- London
- gender equality for eduction
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Eve Sedgwick
-invented queer studies and homosocial
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John Stuart Mill
-happiness is the only thing of real value
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Monique writing
-heterosexuality
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Kierkegaard
- Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author
- The Danish father of existentialism and modernism
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Andrea Smith
-crisis counsellor speaking up for indigenous rights
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Frederick Nietzsche
- contemporary ethical philosopher cultural critic, composer, poet, writer, and philologist whose work has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history
- German
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Lorraine Code
-Canada, studies epistemology and feminst
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Ludwig Wittenstein
-greatest homophobic philosopher
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Bell Hooks
- women of colour
| - theory that recognizes that social classifications (e.g., race, gender, sexual identity, class, etc.)
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Hajime Tanabe
- Japanese
- Related Buddhism and Christianity, such an Aquarius
- religion and mathematics
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Olaudah Equiano
- west Nigerian and London
- renamed gasto
- Baptiste learned to read and write
- manipulated British to make change
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Zeno
- greek philosopher and mathematician
- 22 ships stranded in Athens
- paradoxes were created to make mathematical and logical rigour
- insoluble until the development of precise concepts of continuity and infinity.
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Daniel Sloss
- positivity within negativity to bring positivity
- became a comedian at 19
- Scottish comedian, actor and writer
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Albert Einstein
- spirit of learning lost in strict labour
- german
- physics
- e=mc^2
- spirit of learning lost in strict broaler
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Epicurus
- “Friendship goes dancing round the world, announcing to all of us to wake up to happiness”
- absence of pain equals happiness
- a complete and interdependent system, involving a view of the goal of human life
- all about happiness
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Judith Butler
- American philosopher and gender theorist whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave
- “Gender is performative”, gender equality
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Moses Maimonides
- Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah; Hebrew Bible scholars of the Middle Ages
- humans are creatures of passion
- Spain, had well off family
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Sarte
- existentialist (person who has free responsibility determining their own development who wrote, “Being and nothingness” (an orange).
- philosophy is uniquely sensitive to the tension between individual freedom and the forces of history.
- though identity should be fluid
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Ta Nehisi Coates
-studies modern African Poverty
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Ayn Rand
- Objectivism, moral and ethical, a girl boss
- Russian-American writer, moves to America to make her dreams come true
- hates a lot of philosophers, had a lot of ideas, blunt
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W.E.B Du Bois
- first African to achieve PhD in Harvard
- his writings are rich and interesting Founder of race philosophy
- sociologist, socialist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor
