philosophy Flashcards
(22 cards)
What is Beauty
Aesthetics
What is Value
Ethics
Study of Knowledge
Epistemology
What branch studies governance
Political Philosophy
How we Reason
Logic
What branch studies the nature of value?
Axiology
What is real
Metaphysics
What are the 4 characteristics of Philosophy? (in order)
Wonder, Contemplation, Reason, Emotional Independence
What were the 4 eras of philosophy (include year)
Ancient Era (600-1000)
Medieval Era (1000-1500)
Modern Era (1500-1900)
Contemporary Era (1900-Present)
What were the 2 worlds called in the Allegory of the cave?
World of reality or senses and the world of forms
What were the 2 stages in the allegory of the cave
stage of thoughts and stage of understanding
Who was the 1st Greek philosopher
Thales of Miletus
Who was Thale’s disciple
Anaximander
Who was Anaximander’s Disciple?
Anaximenes
A rhapsodist and philosophical thinker
Xenophanes
believed that there were 4 elements
Empedocles of Acragas
Believed that nothing really has come into being
Anaxoragas
Believed that nothing can really belong
Anaxagones
The opposite of Parmedian’s Theory
Heraclietus of Ephesus
the act of watching things in its entirety without bias and preference
Holistic Perspective
not looking at things entirely, simply describing a part of the whole
Partial Perspective
