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Philosophy final - High School
Philo
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Philosophy
12th Grade
12/14/2013

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Aristotle
Definition

Imperasist 

Everything has substance + form 

Caterogories + 20 questions 

women were by nature inferior to men

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William James
Definition

Pragmatist - Belief is rooted in efficacy or utility 

(type of Empirieist)

 

 

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Forced option 

(William James)

Definition

Chose one or the other

 

ex: To go or to not go 

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Momentous option 

(William James)

Definition

Unique, hard to change

 

ex: College, marriage 

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Living Option 

(William James)

Definition
Something that could happen
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Genuine option 

(Willam James)

Definition

Is a mix of all there (Forced,Momentous,Living)

 

ex: Cheating on ACT

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The Natural Philosophers
Definition

The natural philosophers believed that there was one substance that all things were made of.  



(Thales, Parmenides, Heraclitus, Democritus) 

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Thales
Definition

everything comes from water

"All things are full of gods, all things are made of water"

 

-emperialist, Natural Philo

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Paramenides
Definition

Theres is nothing, always space

 

Change is impossible- Perment state

 

-Rationalist, Naturla philo

 

 

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Heraclitus
Definition

Everything is always changing

"Never step into the same river"

 

Emperialist - Natural Philo 

 

Heraclitus believed in his senses and felt that nothing stayed the same

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Democritus
Definition
who believed that everything was made up of tiny, invisible, and eternal particles called atoms
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Socrates
Definition

He knew that he did not know very much, and this made him much smarter than other people. Socrates had faith in human reason and believed that people were only happy when they acted according to their reason. Therefore, if someone knows what the right thing to do is in a situation she will do it, because it will make her happy.

Died from drinking Hemlock poisin - suicide

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Plato
Definition

Ratinost+dualest- Beileved in 2 worlds ( Ideal + Material world)

We cannot have true knowledge about things that change, so we cannot actually know the real world, but we can have true knowledge about things that we perceive through our reason. Thus Plato was very fond of mathematics, because it involves solely the use of reason. Plato believed that people were made up of a body that is a part of the natural world but also an immortal soul that is in contact with the world of ideas.

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The Hellenism
Definition
The Cynics, The Stoics, The Epicureans, The Neo-Platonists, The Mystics,
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 Cynics
Definition

 who believed that happiness had nothing to do with material goods


get away-Simple

Richer= more misreable

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Stoics
Definition

believed that there was a universal natural law that "governed all mankind." They felt that we are all part of the same nature.


move towards one another-work together

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Epicureans
Definition

felt that pleasure should be sought in life. But any particular act must be considered in terms of the pleasure it will bring compared to what else it will do


freedom from pain + more free time

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Neo-Platonists
Definition
believed that the world is characterized by opposite poles. One pole is light, called the One, or God. The other pole is darkness, but it is defined solely by an absence of light. Some of the light is inside of the human soul, and so we are all a part of the One 
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Mystics
Definition

who believe in personal experiences in which they lose themselves within a supreme being 


1 mind 7 million faces

Brother from another mother

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The Renaissance
Definition
The Printing Press, Compass and Gunpowder where invented
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Descartes
Definition

certain knowedge is only aptainable through reason

 

Cant trust senses, old books

 

father of analytical geometry 

starts by doubting everything

simple to complex 

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Spinoza
Definition

 He was persecuted for his beliefs, and his own family even deserted him.  

God is all, all is god

First to say read the bible Critically 

"God did not create the world to stand outside it, he is in it"

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John Locke 

(British)

Definition

-Empiricist ,Clean slate when born 

felt we could perceive simple sensations, and that we build these up through reflection to form complex ideas. However, he also divided the world into primary and secondary qualities, and only the first—such as size or number—are accurately reproduced. Secondary qualities, like taste, vary from person to person. Locke had a few rationalistic features to his thought. He felt that the same natural rights applied to everyone and also that the existence of God was knowable through reaso

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Hume
Definition

Empiricist -agnostic—he felt the question of God's existence was beyond human reason

 He believed that perception was made up of "impressions" and "ideas". Impressions are how we experience the world, and ideas are what we recall of our impressions. Both ideas and impressions can be simple or complex, but complex ideas can be made through our imagination—an angel is one example

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Berkeley
Definition

Empiricist 

believed that we exist only in God's mind 

We do not percieve material or matter

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The englightenment
Definition

advance the state of mankind 

"opposition to authority"

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Immanuel Kant
Definition
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Immanuel Kant
Definition
We perceive everything as occurring in time and space, and these are innate characteristics of the human mind. Kant divides the world into things as they are in themselves and as we perceive them. We cannot know things as they are in themselves, but we can know how we perceive them.
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The Romantics
Definition
The Romantic period was characterized by a worship of the individual and freedom. Romantics felt that art was humanity's greatest expression of freedom 
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Hegel
Definition
 world spirit was just the sum of human interactions.- truth was subjective and that human reason changed each generation - believed in the community over the individual and felt that language forms people - world spirit realizes itself in three increasing stages—in the individual it is the subjective spirit, in the community the objective spirit, and in art, religion, and philosophy it is the absolute spirit
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Carl Marx - Marxism
Definition

BASE-STRUCTUCTURES-SUPER STRUCTURES

bASE=production(how things get down),competention

Structures- Laws, government,

Super Structures-religion, Morality, media

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Nietzsche
Definition

didnt like limits placed on indivuals 

Obermuach- overman

honesty and humble 

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Kierkegaard
Definition

founded existentialism, the philosophy that is concerned with the existence of each individual. He felt objective truths were useless and that each person could only attempt to discern what is true for himself. Reason is not that important, since we worry about things that it cannot decide.  


 life consists of an aesthetic stage, an ethical stage, and a religious stage,

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Frued
Definition
The id is our desire for pleasure. The ego takes reality into account and regulates the id. And the superego is the societal morality that regulates everything we do. Freud believed that the superego constantly comes into conflict with our desires and this conflict is a source of unease
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Existentialism
Definition

A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the consequences of one's acts.


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