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What Is Philosophy Flashcards

1
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love - strong desire for a physical object

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Philia

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wisdom - correct application of knowledge

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Sophia

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The love of wisdom
Strong desire of a person to posses knowledge and apply it correctly

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Philosophy

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Science that studies beings in their ultimate causes, reasons, and principles through the aid of human reason

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Philosophy - traditional meaning

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all things that exist, material or immaterial (stone, trees, God, soul, spirit)

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being/beings

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Questions are more important than answers because answers themselves will in turn become questions

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Karl Jaspers

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Major Branches of Philosophy

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Metaphysics
Epistemology
Logic
Ethics

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The study of things beyond the physical or concepts of things that cannot be experienced

The foundation of philosophy

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Metaphysics

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beyond/after

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Meta

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physical/nature

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Physika

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Studies beings in their ultimate causes, reasons and principles through the aid of reason alone

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General Metaphysics/Ontology

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being or that which is

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Onto

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13
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knowledge or study - can have many meanings though (Heraclitus understands it as reason or the underlying principle of all that is)

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Logos

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Studies the world/universe, including its origin, dynamics, and characteristics, as well as the laws that govern its order

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Special Metaphysics/Cosmology

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world

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Kosmos

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study

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Logos

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Study of the nature and dynamics of the human person as a whole with emphasis on the way the person’s mind functions and the way they behave

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Psychology

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18
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soul/mind

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Psyche

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19
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study

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Logos

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20
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Study of God
Justification of the goodness of God in the face of the existence of evil

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Theodicy/Natural Theology

21
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God

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Theos

22
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theodicy was coined by

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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

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theodicy was coined by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his 1710 work

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Theodicee

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Study of the nature and scope of knowledge and justified belief

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Epistemology

25
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knowledge

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Episteme

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study

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Logos

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Study of the principles and criteria of a valid argument
Distinguish sound or good reasoning from unsound or bad reasoning

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Logic

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science of correct thinking

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Logos

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custom or habit
Morality of human actions
How human persons ought to act, and the search for a definiton of a right conduct, and good life

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Ethos

30
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wonder is the beginning of philosophy

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Plato

31
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It is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize

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Aristotle

32
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Wonder as the beginning of philosophy

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Philosophic Wonder

33
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Miletus, Ionia hometown of Thales
Asia Minor (now Turkey)

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Western Philosophy

34
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(1st Philosopher)
First to put his philosophy into writing

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Thales

35
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  • good life
    Discovering the nature of happiness
  • Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
    Being happy
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Greek Tradition

36
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  • righteousness before God
    Love of God and neighbor
    doing what is right
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Judeo-Christian Tradition

37
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Morality is characterized as an “end-governed rational enterprise” whose object is to equip people with a body of norms that make for peaceful and collectively satisfying coexistence by facilitating their living together and interacting in a way that is productive for the realization of the general benefit.

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Terrance McConnel

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science of morals

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Ethics

39
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practice of ethics

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Morality

40
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2 Types of Ethics

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Normative Ethics
Metaethics

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Seeks to set norms or standards that regulate right and wrong or good and bad conduct

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Normative Ethics (Prescriptive)

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Aims to understand the nature and dynamics of ethical principles, and the way we learn and acquire moral beliefs

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Metaethics (Descriptive)

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actual application of ethical or moral theories for the purpose of deciding which ethical or moral actions are appropriate in a given situation

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Applied Ethics

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adherents of applied ethics

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Casuists

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etymology: customary behavior

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latin: mos (mores)

46
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one who is good and does the right thing

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Moral person

47
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one who is bad and does what is wrong

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Immoral/Unethical

48
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refers to the principles of right and wrong behavior or rightness and wrongness of human actions

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Morality

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