Chapter 6 Flashcards
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What is a rationalist ?
They have an active mind
emphasizes deduction
some truth and knowledge must be reached through mental process
What time of monist is Spinoza
Neutral
- everything is an extension God
What was Spinoza law of hedonism?
Good - comes from clear ideas and Evil
What is the butterfly effect?
every decision has a cause which has cause which has a cause
Spinoza believe emotions were?
linked to specific ideas - rational good and healthy
Spinoza believed passions were?
not linked to specific ideas and they lead to pain
need to be regulated by reason
who said “ the only true understanding is an understanding of the absolute”?
Hegel
Who said “ everything is part of whole you cant isolate”
Hegel
What is the dialectic?
Thesis(idea) antithesis (against the idea) = synthesis ( new thesis)
What was Hegel’s perceptions context?
look at everything in it context if you remove it from its context, it is something completely different
What was Gottffied Wihelm agrument for anti empiricism ?
Material things can cause immaterial things like ideas
What Gottfried Wihelm take on ideas?
have an idea always in us but experience in like make the idea come out
What did Gottfried Wihelm find in the microscopes?
everything is alive and made of monads(cells)
What did Gottfried Wilhelm believe in?
He believed in preestablished harmony
- mind and body do not interact
According to Wilhem who had the clearest thoughts?
all inanimate objects have clear thoughts humans have clearest thoughts
What did Wilhem believe about the conscious ?
You have unconscious (petite perception)
and then they cross the “limen” into the conscious (apperception)
What is faculty psychology?
minds have different powers or facilitates
Who came up with common sense philosophy?
Thomas reid
What is commons sense philosophy?
trust your senses because that common sense
Who believes in” what you see is what you get” (navies realism?
Thomas Reid
What did Thomas Reid believe God gave us ?
God gave us our sense/ perceptions of the world for our own safety and survival
What were Kants innate categories ?
Unity Time Space and Cause and effect
Who said “we have knowledge of something we’ve never experienced “
Kant
“Morality should be beyond hedonism”
Kant
