lesson 1.2

Question 1

requires a person to be willing to examine one’s thoughts, feelings, and action and to learn more about one’s life and experiences.

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reflection

Question 2

is the capacity of human to exercise introspection and to attempt to learn more about their fundamental nature and essence

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human self reflection

Question 3

is the accumulation of facts and
information.

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knowledge

Question 4

is the synthesis of knowledge and
experiences into insights that deepen one’s understanding of relationships and the meaning of the life.

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wisdom

Question 5

Literally means “after physics”
• Study of the nature of reality
• Necessary drive in every human being to
know what is real
• Metaphysician’s task is to explain that part of
our experience, which we call unreal in terms
of what we call real.
• Seeks to present what is absolutely real.

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metaphysics

Question 6

• Study of the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions.
• Study of the nature of moral judgment. • Prescriptive “what ought to do”

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ethics

Question 7

Origin and meaning of ethical concepts such as good or bad, issues on universally accepted truths and even people’s justification of their own judgments.

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metaethics

Question 8

Concerned with the setting of certain standards of what is morally right and morally wrong. It also involves the formulation of set values or moral norms.

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normative ethics

Question 9

It attempts to apply different theories to different situations in real life such as euthanasia, the death penalty, etc.

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applied ethics

Question 10

Forms of rules, standards, or prescriptions that are strictly followed by people. It indicates the society’s standard of propriety.

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norms

Question 11

Forms of behavior that are relatively or distinctly set away from a norm.

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deviance

Question 12

•Comes from the Greek word episteme which means “knowledge.”
• “Study of kinds, sources, and conditions and validity of knowledge”
• Deals with the process by which people are led to know that something is true.

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epistemology

Question 13

rationalism

Answer 13

Rene Descartes

Question 14

empiricism

Answer 14

john locke

Question 15

pragmatism

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charles sanders

Question 16

The term logic comes from the Greek word loglike.
Etymologically, it means a treatise on matters pertaining to
human thought.
• Study of correct and incorrect forms of reasoning
•Concerned about the truthness or validity of our
arguments/understanding of the world.

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logic

Question 17

comes from the greek word loglike

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logic

Question 18

• a series of statements intended to determine the
  degree of truth of another statement, which is the conclusion.

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argument

Question 19

was the first
to develop a formal system for reasoning. He observed that the deductive validity of any argument can be determined by its structure rather than
its content.

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aristotle

Question 20

•Comes from the Greek word aisthetikos which means
“perception”
• Study of the idea of beauty
• Deals with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty, and good
taste.
• It is concerned with the analysis of aesthetic experience and the
idea of what is beautiful.
• The analysis is directed toward the nature of aesthetic judgment,
and standards of beauty.

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aesthetics

Question 21

argues that our taste and judgment regarding beauty are determined by our personal experience and culture

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hans-georg gadamer

Question 22

a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory, or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the maker’s imaginative, conceptual ideas or technical skill intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

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art