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Platonic Love

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idea of love/friendship by Plato, in which romantic/sexual feelings are nonexistent

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Eugenics

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argument that it is possible to improve the human race and society by encouraging reproduction by people or populations with “desirable” traits (termed “positive” eugenics) and discouraging reproduction by people with “undesirable” qualities (termed “negative” eugenics).

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Animals have…..

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concrete intelligence but can’t think

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Utopia

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idea by Plato of a society that is perfect, therefore it doesn’t exist

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Distopia

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idea by Plato of a society where everything is horrible, the complete opposite of imperfection

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Difference between animals and humans

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although both have a physical body, humans have society and culture, unlike animals

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Darwin’s Natural Selection

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when there are very little resources and many individuals, so only strong/evolutionarily advantaged can survive

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Human Evolution

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humans evolved from homo sapiens to have culture and language

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The two bodies in existence

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  • physical/biological body
  • social, spiritual and cultural soul
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Kant and Frued

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Contemporary Age anthropological philosophers

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Emotional Intelligence

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ability to control our basic emotions/instincts and understand others

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Daniel Goleman: emotional intelligence is achieved through

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self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills

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Übermensch

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  • Nietzsche’s theory of a SUPERMAN (beyond + man):
  • ideal man of the future who gives himself values/morality
  • far superior to all other human beings psychologically

-has overcome nihilism

  • independent individual, very much NOT A CHRISTIAN
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Nietzsche’s two types of humans

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the higher human beings (supermen) , and those who belong to the herd (slaves

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Simone de Beauvoir ideas

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  • French existentialist
  • humans are born free without purpose
  • greatest goal is to find our own life’s meaning and allow others to do the same
  • women aren’t born but become, become the inferior sex in society’s eyes
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Anthropological Dualism

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  • PLATOOOO
  • affirms the existence of body and soul as two distinct realities
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Frued

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pointed out the importance of unconscious desires and traumas in our mental processes, which we are unaware of

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Marx: human objective

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each individual human being is must work creatively with others to fulfill their potential

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Aristotle on human morality

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reason and freedom of speech are the foundation of human morality and sociability

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Kant

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reason is the fundamental characteristic of a human being: it is fundamental to morality and human dignity

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Anthropological philosophy

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ask questions about what it means to be human

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Hilemorfismo

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Aristotle’s theory that there are two parts to everything, the form (physical and actual body) and the matter (soul or conceptual part)

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Culture (Darwin)

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  • a purely human concept, as we are the only species with science, love, music, technology, religion, art etc.
  • characteristic way of life that a society has
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Humans are….

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social animals! after we are born we need relationships with each other to survive

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Two modes of production

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Capitalist and Communist

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Karl Marx: what makes us human iss…….

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doing work

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Capitalist factor workers

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completely alienated from the product they are creating other than their human essence that is used to make it

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Marx fun facts!!!!

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  • studied economic history
  • wrote “The Communist Manifesto”
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Nihilism

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idea by Nietzsche of the denial of all traditional moral values and that life is meaningless

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Evolution

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  • Darwin
  • Theory that species grow and change over time

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