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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

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  • Bulgarian philosopher
  • author and linguistics professor
  • detective novels
  • psychology, psychoanalysis
  • semianalysis- combination of semiotics (language) and psychoanalysis
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Kant

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  • Russian

- everyone has the right to make decisions from the truth

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Natalie Wynne

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-philosophy is an erotic art

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Gandi

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-freed Indians from colonial British rule

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Bentham

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-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

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  • one of the first rational feminist
  • London
  • gender equality for eduction
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Eve Sedgwick

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-invented queer studies and homosocial

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John Stuart Mill

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-happiness is the only thing of real value

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Monique writing

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-heterosexuality

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Kierkegaard

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  • Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author
  • The Danish father of existentialism and modernism
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Andrea Smith

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-crisis counsellor speaking up for indigenous rights

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Frederick Nietzsche

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  • 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

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-Canada, studies epistemology and feminst

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Ludwig Wittenstein

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-greatest homophobic philosopher

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Bell Hooks

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  • women of colour

- theory that recognizes that social classifications (e.g., race, gender, sexual identity, class, etc.)

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Hajime Tanabe

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  • Japanese
  • Related Buddhism and Christianity, such an Aquarius
  • religion and mathematics
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Olaudah Equiano

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  • west Nigerian and London
  • renamed gasto
  • Baptiste learned to read and write
  • manipulated British to make change
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Zeno

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  • 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

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  • positivity within negativity to bring positivity
  • became a comedian at 19
  • Scottish comedian, actor and writer
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Albert Einstein

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  • spirit of learning lost in strict labour
  • german
  • physics
  • e=mc^2
  • spirit of learning lost in strict broaler
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Epicurus

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  • “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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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-studies modern African Poverty

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Ayn Rand

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  • 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

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  • 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

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