Midterm Flashcards

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The examination of the way in which we judge, evaluate, and act

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Philosophy

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What was the Socratic method

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Process of learning through question and answer

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What is cosmology

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Study of the nature of the world

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What did the milesians think

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All things in earth were of earth fire water and air

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What did the stocks believe of the natural world

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It exists due to the power of reason

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Name a famous stoic

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Marcus Aurelius

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What is natural law

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The order with which the universe was created

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What is epistemology

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The study of knowledge

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What is empiricism

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All human knowledge comes from the 5 senses

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What is rationalism

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Some human knowledge comes from reason, therefore we know something’s that the senses don’t reveal

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Follower of Socrates

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Plato

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First philosopher

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Thales

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13
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Believed in atomism

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Lucretius

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Pupil of Plato

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Aristotle

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15
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Invented analytic geometry

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Descartes

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16
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Invented differential calculus

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Leibniz

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17
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Who invented natural law

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The stoics

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18
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Who wrote an essay concerning human understanding

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Locke

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19
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Wrote principles of knowledge

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Berkeley

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20
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Wrote a treatise on human nature

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Hume

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21
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Who wrote critique of pure reason

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Kant

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22
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Charged with corrupting the youth of Athens

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Socrates

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How was Socrates killed

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Punished to drink hemlock (poison)

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What does philosophy literally mean

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Love of wisdom

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Who created the recollection theory
Plato
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What was the recollection theory
We already possess all knowledge, and it is gradually remembered as we do certain things
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What did the tabula rasa literally mean
Blank tablet
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Who made the tabula rasa
Locke
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What was the tabula rasa
Our mind is blank, and is written on by experience as we do things
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What did Heraclitus think of metaphysics
There is continuous change to everything
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What did Parmenides think on metaphysics
Being is a permanent unchanging part of reality
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What were aristotles four principles of cause
Material cause Formal cause Efficient cause Final cause
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What was material cause
What is it that changes
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What is formal cause
What does it change to
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What is efficient cause
What makes the change
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What is final cause
For what reason does it change
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In what image is the soul made
The image of God
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Who created the concept of the levels of the soul and time
Augustine
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First level of the soul
The soul gives life to the body
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Second level of the soul
The soul controls the senses
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Third level of the soul
The soul is becoming the maker of language and culture
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Fourth level of the soul
Ethics, virtue, and death are those who help and take
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Fifth level of the soul
The soul seeks something higher (God)
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Sixth level of the soul
Intellectual vision
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Seventh level of the soul
Highest level
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What does time consist of
The last and future. The present is reduced to a vanishing point
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What is Cartesian dualism
Relationship between the mind and the body are apart from each other
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What is Hobbes materialism
The physical world and mental world are all materialistic
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What is free will
Freedom of humans is assumed in the sense that we aren't limited to a predetermined destiny
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What is determinism
The future is fixed and there is nothing anyone can do to alter the course of events
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What is conscience sometimes called
The voice of God
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What is eternal law
States all things must be in gods image
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Utilitarianism
Everyone should seek the greatest happiness for the greatest amount of people
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What argument for gods existence is anselm known for
Ontological
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The 5 proofs of gods existence
``` Motion Cause Necessity From finite limited perfections to infinite unlimited perfection Supreme intelligence and order ```
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Who listed the 5 proofs for gods existence
Thomas aquinas
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God is the uncaused cause and an efficient cause
Aquinas
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God is the supreme intelligence
Aquinas
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Support the conclusion. To the necessity of an intelligent creator
Paler
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Which 3 ancient philosophers does John Paul ii mention
Aquinas Aristotle Augustine
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Who began his book with question of gods existence
John m. Quinn
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What is Pascal's wager theory
You don't lose anything if you live a moral life and believe in God, and if your belief is true then you get to go to heaven. But if you don't believe in God yet live a moral life there may be a chance that you lose everything.
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What did the sophists do
Spread their beliefs for money
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What does cogito ergo sum mean
I think therefore I am
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What are Descartes 3 co celts of reality
God Mind Matter