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Week 2 Flashcards

1
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Two Approaches to Philosophy

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Historical and Systematic

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2
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traces the progress of ideas through four periods, based on what Hegel calls zeitgiest which literally means “spirit of the time”

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historical study of philosophy

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3
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Cosmocentric or world centered

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Ancient age

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4
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Theocentric or God-centered

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Medieval AGe

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5
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Anthropocentric or man-centered

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Modern age

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Global or borderless

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Contemporary or post-modern age

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7
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Ancient period started where

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Milesia

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8
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What did Thales and Pre-Socratics asked in the Greek miracle

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What is the world stuff?

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9
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Thales’ answer

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Water

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10
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Anaximenes’ answer

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Air

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11
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Anaximander’s answer

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Apeiron or infinite

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12
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Heraclitus’ answer

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Fire

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13
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Empedocles’ answer

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Four elements

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14
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Democritus’ answer

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Atom

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15
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Heraclitus’ answer

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Constant flux

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16
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Parmenides’ answer

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Permanent and unchanging

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17
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Icon of philosopher, the philosopher’s philosopher

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Socrates

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18
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Confine the world to this physical one

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Aristotelian

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19
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Live in the hope of a more perfect world beyond

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Platonist

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20
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Refers to the philosophy in Western Europe

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Medieval philosophy

21
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Age of Belief, the golden age of the Christian Church

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Medieval Period

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Philosophers in Medieval period

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St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine

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St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine. Who is Aristotelian and Platonist?

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Thomas-A

Augustine-P

24
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Highest point of the Medieval Age

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13th century

25
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The decline after 13th century was induced by ——

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various schisms, great and small, and the eventual displacement of feudalism

26
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Time interval of each period

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Ancient (600 bc-600 ad)
Medieval (600-1600)
Modern (1600-1900)
Contemporary (1900-present)

27
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Moder Age is the age of —————

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Age of Geniuses, Age of Enlightenment, Age of the Emergence of Mathematics and other Sciences

28
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Revival of the glorious achievement of the Greeks

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Modern Age

29
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Renaissance means

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Rebirth

30
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Philosophers in modern age

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Leonardo da Vinci, Rene Descartes

31
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I think, therefore I am.

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“Cogito ergo sum”

32
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Reason as the chief source and test of knowledge

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Rationalism

33
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All concepts originate in experience

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Empiricism

34
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Rationalist’s group

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Rene Descartes, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, and Benedict de Spinoza

35
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Empiricist’s group

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John Locke, George Berkley, and David Hume

36
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Father of Post-modernity

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Immanuel Kant

37
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oldest among his contemporaries during 17th and 18th centuries who effected the paradigm shift.

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Immanuel Kant

38
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Immanuel Kant’s painting that marks the end of modern philosophy

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Critique of Pure Reason

39
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“Critique of Pure Reason” is the completion of ——

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Descartes’ Universal Methodical Doubt

40
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Father of Philosophy

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Thales

41
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Father of Modern Thought

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Rene Descartes

42
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Father of Liberism

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John Locke

43
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German, known for arguing that space, time, and causation are mere sensibilities; “things-in-themselves” exist, but their nature is unknowable.”

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Immanuel Kant

44
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English;
first British empiricist after the tradition of Sir Francis Bacon;
Affected by the development of epistemology and political philosophy;
Influenced several Enlightenment thinkers such as Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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John Locke

45
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One of the founders of western religion and spirituality;

Inventor of the written dialogue and dialects forms in philosophy

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Plato

46
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One of the most popular Chinese philosophers;
Emphasized personal and governmental morality;
His thoughts received official sanction. They were further developed into a system known in the West as Neo-Confucianism, and later New Confucianism (Modern Neo- Confucianism

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Confucius

47
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French;

One of the founders of modern philosophy

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Rene Descartes

48
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Was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher;

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49
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Was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher;
One of the founders of Western Philosophy;
First moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought;
Taught Plato and Xenophon

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Socrates

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