Final Flashcards
(23 cards)
what are the 3 skills for philosophy?
- Analysis
- Assessment
- argument
define philosophy.
•The love of wisdom
professors definition of wisdom?
•Wisdom is “knowledge rightly applied”
what are the 2 components of an argument?
- Form/logic
* Content/rhetoric
what are the 4 topical divisions of philosophy?
- Metaphysics-what is real?
- Epistemology- what is reasonable?
- Ethics- what is good?
- Aesthetics- what is beauty?
what are the chronological periods of philosophy?
- Ancients-ontology
- Medieval-theology
- Moderns-epistemology
- Post-moderns-language
what are the tests for truth?
- Correspondence
- Coherence
- pragmatic
what are the 2 major divisions of metaphysics?
- What is the nature of reality
* What are the basic ways of being
what are the 4 Socratic virtues?
- Wisdom
- Courage
- Temperance
- justice
what is platos major contribution to philosophy?
Foundational in establishing the integrated philosophical enterprise
Who were the major influences on Plato and in what way?
- Pythagoras- universal language
- Heraclitus- dualism/logos chaos
- Socrates- ethics
- Parmenides- knowing: eternal and unchaging
According to Plato, what are the two metaphysical components?
form & matter
Aristotle was the first to _________ in philosophy
•Distinguish branches of inquiry
What are the four Aristotelian causes?
- Material cause
- Efficient cause
- Final cause
- Formal cause
what are the seven functions of the mind?
- Language
- Memory
- Imagination
- Reason
- Will
- Emotion
- Percieve
Leibnez’s _______ can be created or destroyed but no by any “natural” means
monads
Among the most important teachings of _______ are the four noble truths
Buddha
What are the four general approaches to explaining the difference between knowledge and any merely “true belief?”
- Normative
- Skepticism
- Virtue epistemology
- Naturalistic
According to Locke our minds begin as a _______ and all knowledge comes from _______
- Blank slate
* experience
Hume takes ______ to be the central idea of all reasoning
causation
Hume’s fork is the idea that for a belief to be justified it must be either a _______ or a ______
- Relation of ideas
* Matter of fact
______ and _______ believed that there are no substances
- Berkely
* hume
Justified true belief is often advanced as a candidate for a definition of _______
knowledge
