Movements Flashcards

(30 cards)

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Anarchy

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Government is evil.
Zeno
William Godwin
Emma Goldman

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Causality

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All actions have specific reactions.

Astrotle

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Collectivism

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Humans are just a subject of society.
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels

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Conservatism

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Individual and minimal intervention of government.
Edmund Burke
Thomas Hobbes
Leo Strauss

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Cynicism

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People are evil
Antisthenes
Diogenes
Zeno

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Determinism

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All events are predetermined
Jonathan Edwards
John Calvin

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Egalitarianism

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All people are created equal

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Empiricism

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Experience is the only source of knowledge
John Locke
David Hume

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Epicureanism

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Value is measured in happiness

Epicurus

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Existentialism

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It is up to the individual to determine his or her own meaning and purpose.
Soren Kierkegaard
Jean-Paul Sartre
Martin Heidegger

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Fatalism

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All events are determined by fate
Oswald Spengler
Arthur Schopenhauer

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Free will

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All events are determined by fate

Christian sects

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Hedonism

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Value = pleasure
Aristippus
Epicurus

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Idealism

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Value = mind over matter
Immanuel Kant
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Individualism

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Society is essentially the sum of its individuals
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine

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Liberalism

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Defense of individual freedom is the purpose of government
John Locke 
Jean-Jacques Rousseau 
John Stuart Mill 
John Dewey
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Libertarianism

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The right to freedom from restraint trumps all other rights

Herbert Marcuse

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Materialism

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Value is measured by material goods in matter
Democritus
Thomas Hobbes

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Meritocracy

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Government by blues with the greatest ability

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Nihilism

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Value and meaning do not exist

Mikhail Bakunin

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Oligarchy

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Government by the few

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Plutocracy

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Governed by the wealthy

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Positivism

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Scientific observation is the only source of knowledge
Auguste Comte
Rudolf Carnap

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Pragmatism

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Value is measured by whatever works
William James
John Dewey

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Rationalism
Deductive reasoning is the only source of knowledge René Descartes Benedict Spinoza
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Realism
Reality consists of universals that humans see in a perfectly as specifics Plato Pierre Abélard
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Relativism
I'll points of view or equally valid truth is subjective Nietzsche Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Skepticism
Oh no that should be viewed with doubt Pyrrho Arcesilaus
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Transcendentalism
Spiritual feelings in the process of thought are our only source of knowledge Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry David Thoreau Bronson Aleott
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Utilitarianism
Where are you is measured by usefulness for the group Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill