Vocab Unit 2 Flashcards
Name of the Ancient Greek school founded by Plato considered to be the first university
Academy
The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of beauty and judgments about it the
Aesthetic
The belief that reality is composed of both materialism and idealism, body and mind
Cartesian dualism
Working from a general rule to identity particaul examples and applications to that rule.
Deductive reasoning
The philosophy that maintains that sensory experiences, such as seeing, hearing , and touching, are the ultimate source of human knowledge
Empiricism
The branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge and learning
Epistemology
The branch of philosophy that examines questions of right and wrong, and bad
Ethnics
The tendency to view ones own culture as superior to other, or to fail to consider other cultures in a fair manner
Ethnocentric
The doctrine put forth by Aristotle asserting that virtue s in the middle ground between two extremes
Golden mean
A doctrine holding that knowledge is derived from ideas and emphasizing knowledge moral and spiritual reality as a preeminent source of explanation.
Idealism
Drawing generalization asked on observation of specific examples
Inductive reasoning
The branch of philosophy that deals with reasoning defines the rules of reasoning focuses on how to move from one set of assumptions
Logic
A philosophy focused on scientific observation and the belief that only in the the physical realm
Materialism
The area of Philosophy that examines the nature of reality
Metaphysics
The love or search for wisdom the quest to understand the meaning of life
Philosophy
An approach to analyzing how past and present societies are arranged and governed and how better societies may be created in the future
Political philosophy
A philosophical belief that asserts truth is what works and rejects other view of reality
Pragmatism
Series of test developed by ETS to assess teachers competence in various areas
Praxis
The philosophy that emphasizes the power of reason and the principles of logic to derive statements about the world.
Rationalism
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.
Social Darwinism
An educational strategy attributed to Socrates in which a teacher encourages a students discovery of truth by questions.
Socratic method
