UTS REVIEWER Flashcards
Search for truth through logical reasoning rather than factual observation
PHILOSOPHY
A Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy
SOCRATES
(469-399 BC)
An Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought, and the Academy
PLATO
(427-347 BC)
What human beings are composed of two things?
BODY & SOUL
Is the physical part and concerned with material world?
BODY
Is something which is immortal. One is born and reborn into the physical human body?
SOUL
Was a theologian, philosopher, and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa
ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
Was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of the Kingdom of France?
RENE DESCARTES
(1596-1650)
Was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the “Father of Liberalism.”
JOHN LOCKE
(1632-1704)
Was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
DAVID HUME
(1711-1776)
Was an influential German philosopher in the Age of Enlightenment. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, he argued that space, time, and causation are mere sensibilities; “things-in- themselves” exist, but their nature is unknowable.
IMMANUEL KANT
(1724-1804)
Was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.
SIGMUND FREUD
(PSYCHOANALYSIS)
WHAT ARE THE THREE LEVELS OF THE MIND?
CONSCIOUS
PRE-CONSCIOUS
UNCONSCIOUS
Means awareness?
CONSCIOUS
Thoughts which can easily be brought to consciousness?
PRE-CONSCIOUS
Part of the person’s personality which is not directly known to the person but can influence his behaviour and emotions?
UNCONSCIOUS
Was a British philosopher. He was a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Ludwig Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical problems, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase “the ghost in the machine”?
GILBERT RYLE
(1900-1976)
Is a Canadian philosopher known for his studies in neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind
PAUL CHURCHLAND
(1942)
A French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger. The constitution of meaning in human experience was his main interest and he wrote on perception, art, and politics.
MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY
(1908-1961)
A study of human social relationships and institutions. The science of society, social institutions and social relationships. Specifically, the systematic study of the development, structure interaction and collective behaviour or organized groups and human beings.
SOCIOLOGY
He developed a theory of social behaviourism to explain how social experience develops an individual’s personality
George Herbert Mead
(1972)
This process is characterized by Mead as the “I” and the “me. ” The “me” is the social self and the “I” is the response to the “me. ” In other words, the “I” is the response of an individual to the attitudes of others, while the “me” is the organized set of attitudes of others which an individual assumes
Mead’s Theory of Social Behaviorism
Refers to all other people in our lives. It is in a sense, the communal experience that shapes the norms of society which we learn through socialization. And socialization is the process beginning during childhood by which individuals acquire the values, habits and attitudes of society.
Generalized Other
It is the science of human beings. The study of human being’s and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations and culture.
ANTHROPOLOGY
