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Philosophy Flashcards

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Existentialism

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Philosophy based on free will

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Empiricism

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Theory that knowledge comes from sensory perception

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Idealism

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Theory that reality is mentally constructed

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Logical positivism

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Analytic philosophy that combines empiricism and rationalism

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Neoplatonism

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Mystical philosophy based on the teaching of Plato

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Pragmatism

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Theory before practice

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Rationalism

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Deductive reasoning

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Transcendentalism

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Belief that the spiritual is more important than the material

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Aristotle

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Student of Plato; poetics

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Francis bacon

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English philosopher

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Herbert Francis Bradley

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British idealist of “appearance and reality”

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Rene Descartes

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French father of modern philosophy

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John Dewey

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American philosopher of education and social reform

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Thomas Hobbes

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English political philosopher of “ leviathan”

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David Hume

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Scottish philosopher of empiricism and skepticism

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William James

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American philosopher and psychologist

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Immanuel Kant

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German of “critique of pure reason”

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Gottfried Leibnitz

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German philosopher and mathematician

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John Locke

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English philosopher and empiricist of “an essay concerning human understanding”

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Nicolo Machiavelli

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Italian of “the prince”

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John Stuart mill

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British philosopher and political economist

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Thomas more

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English philosopher and humanist of “utopia”

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Friedrich Nietzsche

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German known for the idea of the death of god; “beyond good and evil”

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Charles sanders peirce

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American father of pragmatism

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Plato

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Greek author of “the republic”

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Arthur Schopenhauer

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German atheist of “the world as will and representation”

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Adam smith

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Scottish enlightenment

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Socrates

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Ethics a and the teacher of Plato

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Sun tzu

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Chinese author of “the art of war”

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Voltaire

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French author of “candide”

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Mao Zedong

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Chinese communist leader

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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Swiss author of the social contract

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