Quiz 2 Flashcards
(30 cards)
believed that one’s physical body and soul are separable entities
Plato
believed that the soul and body are one thing and are inseparable.
Aristotle
declared the Unmoved Mover and First Cause are proofs that God exists.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
pioneered the “Cartesian Method” which explored the value of thinking and the primacy of the mind.
Rene Descartes
dismissed the claim that one’s emotion legitimizes the moral worth of an act.
Immanuel Kant
rational will is the imperative basis of moral worth.
Immanuel Kant
first existentialist thinker.
Soren Kierkegaard
the human person tends to plunge oneself for a long in hedonistic lure.
Soren Kierkegaard
sternly rejects Christianity as a pragmatic ground of morality.
Friedrich Nietzsche
believed that man must not premise itself on the reward system of God but on the consequential givenness of life such as responsibility and authenticity.
Friedrich Nietzsche
radically departed from the concept of dualism
Edmund Husserl
strongly asserted that reality must be grounded on the “phenomena” of experience.
Edmund Husserl
was a harsh critique of “Cartesian Thinking” and emphasized the concreteness of life.
Gabriel Marcel
is the first known self-professed thinker to declare himself an existentialist atheist.
Jean-Paul Sartre
philosophical attitude spins on the authenticity of being responsible for self and others.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Freedom is not about following one’s passions or submitting to one’s inclination but rather controlling them
Immanuel Kant
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Exercising freedom on behalf of someone else’s ‘real self’ is a dishonorable act or moral pretense
Isaiah Berlin
Individuals who live in a civil society never really feel the implementation of equality and individual freedom assured to them
Jean Jacques Rousseau
An action without goodwill does not qualify as good
Immanuel Kant
The true freedom that deserves the name is one that pursues our own good in our way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their effort to obtain it”
John Stuart Mill
“The kind of problems we create in a society reflects much on how we cannot handle the insatiable desires or needs that we have”
Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Self-realization is not accomplished by an act of thinking alone”
Erich Fromm
Genuine freedom is being responsible for the decisions and actions that we make
Jean Paul Sartre
