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Socrates Vocab words
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
10/14/2008

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Absolute
Definition
Name for God
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Aesthetics
Definition
Study of what is BEAUTIFUL
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Animism
Definition

All early civilization was inhabited

by spirits

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Art (for Plato)
Definition
3x Removed from the truth
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Atomism
Definition

Everything can break down into one thing.

Atomism is a form of Reductionism

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Autonomous
Definition
Self governed
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Being
Definition

Platos word for those in the inteligle world

"angels"

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Democritus
Definition
 Foundation of Atomism
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Dionysius
Definition
A God- WIne, ectasty &H altered states of mind
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Dualism
Definition
There are two completely different subtances that make up the world
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Emperical
Definition
Only events experienced are real
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Epistemology
Definition
Study of how we KNOW
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Ethics
Definition
What is RIGHT
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Evident
Definition
Obvious
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Evil
Definition
Absence of knowledge
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Happiness
Definition
The final goal of everything living
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Hierarchy
Definition
A divine or holy order of things
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Idealism
Definition
First there was an idea, then everything else developed
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Ideology
Definition
a system of beliefs that explain everything
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Inanimate
Definition
No Soul
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Intelligible world
Definition
Plato's idea of heaven
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Materia
Definition
Stuff everything is made of
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Materialism
Definition

Everything began with one substance

(PHILOPHICAL VIEW)

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Monism
Definition
Everything begins from one substance
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Monotheism
Definition
Belief in ONE god
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Mysticism
Definition
Find spirit or divine in things of this world
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Mythology
Definition
A set of stories using supernatural means
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Neo-Platonism
Definition
The adjustment if Platonic philosophy to fit early Christian doctrine & ideas.
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Noble Lie
Definition
Philo. King could lie for protection
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Ontology
Definition
Study of what is REAL
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Oracle
Definition
Messenger of Gods
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Partnership
Definition
Women & Men are equal
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Perspectivism
Definition
Assumes the whole universe is alive
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Philosophical midewifery
Definition
Sicarates helped people find truth
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Philosophy
Definition
The love of wisdom
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Plato's Theory of Forms
Definition
Ideals for this world
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Philosopher King
Definition
No property, cannot be corrupt, no sex, had right to lie
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Polytheism
Definition
Belief in more than one god
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Pythagoreans
Definition
Partnership society
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Recollection
Definition
Soul knew perfection and had preexistence
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Reductionism
Definition
Is a general term, atomism is an example
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Rhetoric
Definition
Very elaborate Course of speech study
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Sophist
Definition
Belief that there is no truth, All there is is POWER, Charged $$$ for services
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Three parts of the soul
Definition

Reason, spirit, appetite

or

Wisdom, courage, temperence

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Truth
Definition
Forms or Ideas
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Wisdom
Definition
Combo of knowledge and experience
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Worldview
Definition
Coherent system to explain everything
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