Chapter 18 Flashcards
(35 cards)
The belief that God doesn’t exist
Atheism
A term used in Marxist theory to describe the upper powerful class
Bourgeoise
The belief that everything is ultimately energy and that everyone possesses the potential to achieve divine unity.
Collective Consciousness
The Marxist ideal of a classless and stateless utopian society in which all property is commonly owned and each person is paid accordingly to his or her abilities.
Communism
The belief in a divine interconnected essence of reality.
Consciousness
A method of literary analysis that question the ability of a language to represent reality adequately and seeks to discern and expose the purported underlying ideology of a text.
Deconstruction
The belief that only the material world exists and that class struggles are the mechanisms behind social and economic progress.
Dialectical Materialism
The belief that economics determines the entire course of human history, ultimately and inevitability leading to a communist future.
Economic Determinism
The branch of philosophy that seeks to understand the nature of knowledge.
Epistemology
God’s universal revelation about himself and morality that can be obtained through nature of knowledge
General Revalation
A Muslim who embraces the full application of Shariah law and who views jihad as a call to conquer no believing nations.
Islamist
An Islamist who embraces the use of terrorism in pursuit of Jihad
Jihadi
The belief that good is returned to those who do good, and evil is returned to those who do evil
Karma
The belief that laws are rules created by human authorities and that there is no inherent or necessary connection between law and morality.
Legal Positivism
The belief that reality is composed solely of matter
Materialism
A single overarching interpretation of grand story of reality.
Metanarrative
The branch of philosophy that seeks to understand the nature of ultimate reality.
Meta physics
The study of the relationship between mind and the physical body
Mind/Body Problem
The belief that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes
Naturalism
The belief that everything in the universe is ultimately divine.
Pantheism
An intellectual movement that agrees with structuralism but progresses further by contending that human communication isn’t really about things.
Post Structuralism
The working class wage earners who do not own the means of production
Proletariat
The belief that whatever advances the proletariat and communism is morally good, and whatever hinders them is morally evil.
Proletariat Morality
The stage at which person purportedly meets his or hers full psychological potential
Self actualization