Vocab Unit 2

Question 1

Name of the Ancient Greek school founded by Plato considered to be the first university

Answer 1

Academy

Question 2

The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of beauty and judgments about it the

Answer 2

Aesthetic

Question 3

The belief that reality is composed of both materialism and idealism, body and mind

Answer 3

Cartesian dualism

Question 4

Working from a general rule to identity particaul examples and applications to that rule.

Answer 4

Deductive reasoning

Question 5

The philosophy that maintains that sensory experiences, such as seeing, hearing , and touching, are the ultimate source of human knowledge

Answer 5

Empiricism

Question 6

The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and learning

Answer 6

Epistemology

Question 7

The branch of philosophy that examines questions of right and wrong, and bad

Answer 7

Ethnics

Question 8

The tendency to view ones own culture as superior to other, or to fail to consider other cultures in a fair manner

Answer 8

Ethnocentric

Question 9

The doctrine put forth by Aristotle asserting that virtue s in the middle ground between two extremes

Answer 9

Golden mean

Question 10

A doctrine holding that knowledge is derived from ideas and emphasizing knowledge moral and spiritual reality as a preeminent source of explanation.

Answer 10

Idealism

Question 11

Drawing generalization asked on observation of specific examples

Answer 11

Inductive reasoning

Question 12

The branch of philosophy that deals with reasoning defines the rules of reasoning focuses on how to move from one set of assumptions

Answer 12

Logic

Question 13

A philosophy focused on scientific observation and the belief that only in the the physical realm

Answer 13

Materialism

Question 14

The area of Philosophy that examines the nature of reality

Answer 14

Metaphysics

Question 15

The love or search for wisdom the quest to understand the meaning of life

Answer 15

Philosophy

Question 16

An approach to analyzing how past and present societies are arranged and governed and how better societies may be created in the future

Answer 16

Political philosophy

Question 17

A philosophical belief that asserts truth is what works and rejects other view of reality

Answer 17

Pragmatism

Question 18

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Answer 18

Praxis

Question 19

The philosophy that emphasizes the power of reason and the principles of logic to derive statements about the world.

Answer 19

Rationalism

Question 20

A belief that’s contends societies is a nature sorting system which rewards the talented and places and less deserving at the bottom of the social and economic pecking order.

Answer 20

Social Darwinism

Question 21

An educational strategy attributed to Socrates in which a teacher encourages a students discovery of truth by questions.

Answer 21

Socratic method