Exam 3 (philosophy) Flashcards
(25 cards)
Sartres’ characterization of a persons refusal to accept him/herself…
Bad Faith
those people who continue to argue that mental events and physical events are wholly separate…
Dualists
Sartres term for the totality of facts that are true of a person at any given time..
Facticity
What is most essential to individual human existence in Christianity, that aspect of the person that survives death
soul
The problem that seems to follow from the view that we know only our own minds directly
egocentric predicament
The characteristics that make a person that particular person
Essential self
The theory that mental events are identical to certain processes in the brain
functionalism
the view that we can know only of the existence of our own minds
solipism
similarity, comparison
analogy
The way you characterize yourself…
self-identity
in the existentialism, the genuine, individual self identity to be distinguished from the inauthentic merely role playing the public identity.
authentic self
Going against the rules of reason
irrational
The thesis that there are no mental events…
behaviorism
the belief that every event has its cause (or causes)
principle of universal causality
Freedom from all constraints (which is impossible)
absolute freedom
The application of our rationality to practical problems…
practical reason
The freedom to utilize one’s potential
positive freedom
determinism uncompromised, unqualified.
Hard determinism
the thesis that both determinism.. and free action can be true
compatibilism
the thesis that at least some events in the universe are not determined
indeterminism
the belief that a person is capable of making decisions that are not determined by antecedent conditions
free will
the view that every event in the universe is dependent upon other events that are its causes.
determinism
the freedom from constraints
negative freedom
the thesis that accepts determinism… A persons character will allow us to call his/her actions “free”
soft determinism
