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Midterms philo Flashcards

1
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A philosophical position that there is a radical difference between mind and matter.

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Dualism

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There exists two kinds of substance.
BODY- non-physical substance
MIND- physical substance

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Substance dualism

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Mental Phenomena are non-physical properties of the physical phenomena but not
properties of non-physical substances.

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Property dualism

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Plato: the body is a

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Prison that confined the soul, thus becomes limited (likened to a soul)

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Plato: the soul is a

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Compelled to the truth, aims to disassociate from the body (likened to a chariot)

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French Philosopher who claimed that Truth must be anchored in an indestructible criterion which is
anchored to the principles of mathematics

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Rene Descartes

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A man is

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The thing that thinks

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Thinking Substance, the thing that thinks, the only thing that defines man

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Res cognitas- mind

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Extended substance, an extended thing, extension of the thinking thing

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Res Extensa- body

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10
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indubitable basis of our judgments, an embodied being

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Cogito

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man is a product of the evolutionary processes of nature.

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Physical Crosspoint

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to make incarnate a meaning which proceeds from the inner person and makes it visible or present
through a roper body structure.

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Embodiment

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13
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It is the unity of body an soul

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Human person

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Man is a crosspoint or point of intersection of physical, interpersonal, social, and historical lines of
events.
- Man is a limitation and possibility. Limitation as finitude, and possibility as capacity to
transform/transcend.
- Man is a project where he is considered as a destiny and a task.

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Historical action

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each one of us belongs to interpersonal lines of events

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Interpersonal crosspoint

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man is a product of past generations which formed the society in which one lives.

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Social crosspoint

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  • “I place myself outside of the thing I am inquiring on”
  • “A BODY”, an objective idea apart
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Objectum: thrown in front

18
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  • “I am part of the thing I am investigating”
  • “MY BODY”, a body full of life, the self
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Subjectum: thrown beneath

19
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“I own my body, I treat it as an instrument in order to possess and use other things.”

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Body as instrument

20
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“there-being”, has the capacity to realize the meaning of its existence considering its situation
as being thrown into a world of endless possibilities

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Dasein

21
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Man is in a constant unveiling and revealing of oneself called as

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Alethiea

22
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Is the proponent of dasein where he defined man as always ahead-of-
himself. He is thrown into the world where he/she realizes himself or herself as one who is absorbed
in things and people.

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Martin Heidegger

23
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Man is a being-in-the-world through his

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Body

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ANTHROPOCENTRISM

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  • Philosophical viewpoint arguing that man is the central or most significant entity in the world.
  • Nature serves the interest of man
  • Humans are the loci of fundamental value
  • Man is self-ending, self-centering, idolizes himself
25
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One can transcend Anthropocentrism by

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Realizing that there exists a deeper communion between humanity and
nature

26
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– Political and Ethical movement that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through
changes to environmentally harmful human activities

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Environmentalism

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Formal environmentalism

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Sustained Dialogues, Bilateral and Multi-Lateral agreements among stakeholders

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Radical environmentalism

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Violent actions, warding off potential violators from committing crimes against nature

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– Social movement seeking to address the inequitable distribution of environmental hazards among the poor and
minorities

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CLIMATE JUSTICE

30
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  • implies our moral obligation to the rights of the present generation
  • idea of fairness
  • what we do individually or collectively affects the lives of others
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Intragenerational justice

31
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  • implies our moral obligation to the rights of the future generation
  • an obligation to pass on to the future, in the name of justice, a world where it would be possible to Survive.
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Intergenerational justice

32
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Levels of deep ecology

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*Self-realization
*bio-centric equality

33
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All things in the biosphere develop to reach their own unfolding or self-realization.
Everything is part of a whole, one with equal value

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BIO-CENTRIC EQUALITY

34
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spiritual in nature. People grow with nature. Spiritual Self

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SELF-REALIZATION

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  • All people deserve to live in a clean and safe environment
  • Man as a rational being, has responsibility to take care and respect the environment
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Climate justice

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