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Western Civ
Second Exam. Second Semester.
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Undergraduate 1
03/12/2009

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Weltanschauung
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German:
World and life view
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Anthropology
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the study of man
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TOE
Definition
refers to scientists search for a theory of everything, a unifying absolute
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Autonomous Man
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man is ultimate; no higher being or power
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despair
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loss of hope;pessimism, a "line of dispair is the logical response to the loss of hope- to naturalism"
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Existentialism
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Idealistic- individuals construct their own meaning; no objective metaphysical reality
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Forms
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Idealistic. ideals, metaphysics, universals (plato's terms for ultimate reality)
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Hedonism
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life is lived for pleasure (which is the highest good). eat, drink, & be merry
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Humanism
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Human beings are ultimate reality; nothing is above, beyond, or greater
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The Biblical Universal
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The Word, the Logos, the Creator-God became flesh and dwelt amoung us
John 1:14
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Impenetrable Concrete Slab
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divides Schaeffer's upper & lower story: the two cannot be mixed.
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Incarnational Faith
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living out one's faith among the world rather than trying to live behind a wall
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Integrated Believer
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one in whom biblical truth is at work in every part of life; not just in a religious portion
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Judeo/Christian values
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Old and New Testament values
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Leap of Faith
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a faith commitment without reason
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Liberalism (modernism)
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tends to discount the miraculous and supernatural elements in the Bible
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Lower Story
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Schaeffer's section of the divided field of knowledge dealing rationally with the natural world
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Materialism
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naturalism; the natural world is the only reality
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Nihilism
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destructive skepticism
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Particulars
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the specific parts of the natural world
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Verification
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evidence to support a viewpoint
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Pre-evangelism
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providing ideas and facts that one must know to understand and accpept the gospel
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Romanticism
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optimistic world view prevalent since Renaissance: man is basically good. his progress is inevitable
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World View
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comprehensive, conditioned, challenged, chosen & continuous
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Upper story
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Schaeffer's term for non-reason. subjective aproach to metaphysical truth. "what i feel makes it real. what i like makes it right"
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the great questions of life
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where did i come from? (orgin) why am i here? (purpose) where am i going? (destiny) who am i?
naturalistic answers begin and end with chance
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realism
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limits: no unifying absolute. verification but no meaning. the meaning of things is not self-evident
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Thomas Aquinas IR
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Realism
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Thomas Aquinas
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added investigation of particulars to Scripture & Church teaching; "natural theology"
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Francis Bacon IR
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realism
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Francis Bacon
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re-emphasis on inductive rather than deductive; God's Word and God's World
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August Comte
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positivism; 3 stages of progress, from theological to metaphysical to posative naturalism
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August Comte IR
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realism
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Charles Darwin IR
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realism
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Charles Darwin
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progress in nature; natural selection and survival of the fittest
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Origin of the Species
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Charles Darwin
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John Dewey IR
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Realism
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John Dewey
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pragmatism (what works = truth) extended scientific methodology to education
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Thomas Huxley IR
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realism
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Thomas Huxley
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popularized Darwinism. Coined Agnostic.
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agnostic
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a polite atheism. God is unknown and/or unknowable
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John Locke IR
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realism
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John Locke
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man is born tabula rosa (blank slate); all knowledge comes through nature
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Karl Marx
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a natural economic force drives the struggle (Hegel's dialectic) for progress, but he rejected Hegel's "world soul."
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Karl Marx IR
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realism
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Jean Jacques Rousseau IR
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realism
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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reacted against civilization.
nature and natural freedom= truth
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Herbert Spencer IR
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realism
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Herbert Spencer
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applied Darwinism to social sciences
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Idealism
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Strength: can speak to "meaning"
Limitation: lacks means of verification and has no unifying absolute
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Augustine IR
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Idealism
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Augustine
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"neo-platonist" philosopher; de-emphasized material world
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Karl Barth IR
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idealism
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Karl Barth
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existentialist theologian. "neo-orthodox"
truth is built on my experience
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George Berkeley IR
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idealism
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George Berkeley
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Irish bishop. reacted against materialism.
nothing exist independent of perception
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Rene Descartes IR
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idealism
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Rene Descartes
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cogito ergo sum (i think, therefore i am) start with the mind and not with the natural world
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WGF Hegel IR
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idealism
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WGF Hegel
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History progresses through a struggle guided by a spiritual force (a world soul or spirit)
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Martin Heidegger IR
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idealism
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Martian Heidegger
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secular existentialist. Sartre's mentor
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Immanuel Kant IR
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Idealism
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Immanuel Kant
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separated faith and reason (nomena and phenomenon) into two mutually exclusive spheres
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Soren Kierkengaard IR
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idealism
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Soren Kierkeggard
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Christian existentialist.
Faith and reason are not only seperate but opposed to one another
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Plato IR
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idealism
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Plato
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used mind, dialectic, and intution to access forms, and ideas.
allegory of teh cave (nature is just shadows)
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The Chrstian Mind
"Ours is the most secular generation of Christianity in the history of the church"
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Harry Blamires
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Politics at God's Funeral
evangelicals are too secular to inspire a return ot selfless values
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Michael Harrington
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Invictus; optomistic humanism
"i am the master of my fate; i am the captian of my soul"
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WE Henley
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pioneer psychologist
"in science i missed the factor of meaning; and in religion that of empiricism"
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CG Jung
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Psychology as Religion
The Cult of Self-Worship
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Paul Vitz
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Ideas Have Consequences
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Richard Weaver
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"Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ"
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Paul
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Your adversary, the Devil, prowls around like a roaring lion
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Peter
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The unexamined life is not worth living
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Socrates
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3 stages: theological, metaphysical, posative
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Auguste Comte
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Scientific methodology to education
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John Dewey
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Natural Theology
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Thomas Aquinas
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Popularized "Darwinism"
and coined "agnostic"
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Thomas Huxley
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Nature is more than shadows
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Aristotle
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God's word and God's world
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Francis Bacon
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Human beings are the ultimate reality
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Humanism
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Separated reason and faith
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Kant
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Neo-platonist
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Augustine
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Nothing exists independant of perception
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Berkeley
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I think, therefore I am
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Descartes
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Discounts miracles
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Modernism
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Religious existentialist who separated faith and reason into two mutually exclusive spheres
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Sartre
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Secular existentialist. Sartre's mentor.
"Being in the world"
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Heidegger
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Dialectic. World Soul
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Kierkegaard
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Stressed the absurdity and meaningless of individual existence. There is unfortunately no God to give meaning to life
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Sartre
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Existentialist theologian.
"truth" is built on my experience.
neo-orthodox
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Barth
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Blank slate (tabula rasa)
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John Locke
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no unifying absolute, strength
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Realism
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Nature vs. civilization
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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applied Hegel's theory
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Karl Marx
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Darwinism to social sciences
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Herbert Spencer
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Natural World is only reality
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Materialism
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Nothing is known unless God makes it luminous
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Augustine
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The human mind was not harmed by the fall
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Thomas Aquinas
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Methodical Doubt- don't assume what you see with your eyes is
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Rene Descartes
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Inductive Method
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Francis Bacon
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No existence of matter independant of perception
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George Berkely
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All knowledge comes through human experience
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John Locke
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Phenomena from nomena
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Immanuel Kant
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Go to nature for truth, the social contract
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
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He believed in an absolute or world spirit that is evident in and guides history
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GWF Hegel
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Truth and reality "exist" through experience
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Kierkengaard
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Applied existentialism to theology. Christ is risen in our hearts
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Karl Barth
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Applied Hegel to materialistic/economic law
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Karl Marx
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Positivism: the material world is all there is
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Auguste Comte
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Sought scientific basis for materialism and Hegel's optimism
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Charles Darwin
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created a polite form of atheism
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Thomas Huxley
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Applied Darwinism to human society
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Herbert Spencer
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Each individual constructs their own meaning
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Heidegger
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Pragmatism- what seems to work is truth
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Herbert Spencer
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Ther is no God- there is no basis for hope
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Sartre
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Only science has a genuine claim to knowledge- mathematical pattern
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Bertrand Russell
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pragmatism
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what works= truth
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neo-orthodox theologian
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Barth
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our world view is pieced together from totalilty of experience. defenition
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comprehensive
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our worldview is not consciously chosen. it is_______ -absorbed from one's enviornment particulary and intintally, home and parents , then one's widenign sources
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comditioned
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our world view is faced with conflicting opinions, options and ideas from friends, acquaintances, school, etc. . .
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challenged/confronted
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our world view is ______- increasingly making choices, consciously and unconscionsly
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chosen
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a____________: one's weltanschauung is established, but continues to be conditioned, challenged, and chosen
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continuous
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foundation of incarnational faith
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God so loved the world that He gave His Son
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priorities of incarnational faith
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we should no longer live for ourselves, but for HIm
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the great commandment of incarnational faith
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love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength
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the new commandment of incarnational faith
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love one another
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existentialist theologian
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Barth
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secular existentialist
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heidegger
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Christian existentialist
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Kierkegaard
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