UNDERSTANDING THE SELF Flashcards

1
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PhILOSOPHY is defined as the Study of ______?

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Knowledge or Wisdom

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2
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Latin Roots of the word “Philosophy”

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“Philo” means Love; and
“Sophia” means Wisdom

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3
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What Type of “Idea of Permanence”?

“Everything in existence is permanent and unchangeable. Something exist because it is permanent.”

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Pro Permanence

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4
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What Type of “Idea of Permanence”?

Everything flows. You can never step on the same river twice.

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Pro Changeability

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5
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Who are the Big 3 Philosophers?

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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

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6
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He is the Mentor of Plato

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Socrates

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7
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Stone Mason with a Sharp Mind

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Socrates

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Great Debater

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Socrates

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What is the Socratic/Dialectic Method?

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Do not answer the question. Make them answer the question by giving them another question.

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“I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.”

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Socrates

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11
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He was named by the Oracle of Delphi as the Wisest of All Men

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Socrates

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12
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Born in Athens to one of the Greece’s aristocratic families

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Plato

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13
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Nicknamed because of his physical built which means Wide or Broad

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Plato

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14
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He established “The Academy”

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Plato

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15
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Refers to what are real. Not encountered with the senses. Can only be grasped intellectually.

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Forms

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16
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He believed that his mission in life was to seek the highest knowledge and convince others who are willing to seek this knowledge with him.

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Socrates

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17
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What are the Characteristics of Forms?

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Forms are Ageless and therefore are Eternal, Unchanging and therefore are Permanent, Unmoving and Indivisible

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18
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PLATO’S DUALISM

“Composed of changing “sensible” things which are lesser entities and therefore IMPERFECT AND FLAWED

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The Realm of Shadows

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PLATO’S DUALISM

“Composed of eternal things which are permanent and perfect. It is the source of reality and true knowledge.”

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The Realm of Forms

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20
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He made use of the Socratic/Dialectic Method

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Plato

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21
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He believed that knowledge lies within a person’s soul

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Plato

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22
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3 COMPONENTS OF SOUL

“Rational and is the Motivation for goodness and truth.”

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The Reason

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23
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3 COMPONENTS OF SOUL

“Non-rational and is the will or the drive towards action. Initially neutral but can be influenced in two direction.”

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The Spirited

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24
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3 COMPONENTS OF SOUL

“Irrational and lean towards the desire and pleasure of the body.”

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The Appetizer

25
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What people see in the cave are only shadows which they believe are real things and represents knowledge.

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Allegory of the Cave

26
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In knowing the truth, the person must become the truth.

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Theory of Being

27
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___________ is the way of knowing and realizing the truth.

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Love

28
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Sees man as a sinners who reject/go against a loving God’s command

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Christianity

29
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A philosopher whose main idea is about Religion.

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St. Augustine

30
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He is from Hippo, Africa

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St. Augustine

31
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He wanted to know about moral evil and why it existed in people, his personal desire for sensual pleasures and questions about all sufferings in the world.

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St. Augustine

32
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His view of human nature are God as the source of all reality and truth, and the sinfulness of man.

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St. Augustine

33
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Father of Modern Philosophy

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Rene Descartes

34
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Introduced the Cartesian Plane and invented Analytic Geometry

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Rene Descartes

35
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The ability to apprehend direction of certain truths

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Intuition

36
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The power to discover what is known by progressing in an orderly way from what is already known. Truths are arrived using step by step process.

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Deduction

37
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I think, therefore I am

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Rene Descartes

38
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He believed that reasoning could produce absolute truths about nature, existence, morality, and God

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Rene Descartes

39
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He considered the soul/mind as a substance that is separate from the body

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Rene Descartes

40
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He was born in Wrington, England

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John Locke

41
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Son of a Puritan Lawyer

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John Locke

42
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He believed that knowledge results for ideas produced by the objects that were experienced

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John Locke

43
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PROCESS INVOLVES TWO FORMS

Objects were experienced through the senses

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Sensation

44
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PROCESS INVOLVES TWO FORMS

Mind looks at the objects that were experienced to discover relationships that may exists between them

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Reflection

45
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Ideas are not inmate but rather the mind at birth is a blank slate

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Tabula Rasa

46
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His View of Human Nature is Knowing what is good does not necessarily mean that people will always do what is good. And Morals, Religious, and Political Values come from sense experience.

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John Locke

47
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JOHN LOCKE’S THREE LAWS

Actions that are ‘praiseworthy’ are called Virtue and those that are not are called Vice.

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Law of Opinion

48
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JOHN LOCKE’S THREE LAWS

Right actions are enforced by people with authority (ex. Courts, Police)

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Civil Law

49
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JOHN LOCKE’S THREE LAWS

The actions of man are set by God

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Divine Law

50
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Impressions immediate sensation

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David Hume

51
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Recollection of Impressions

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Ideas

52
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Human nature “self” others call it “soul”.The self is a product of the imagination.There is no permanent self.

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David Hume

53
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The mind is not just a passive receiver of sense experience but an active participant. God is within man.

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Immanuel Kant

54
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The Unconscious (Iceberg), ID, EGO, SUPEREGO, Instincts: LIFE (Eros – libido – thirst, hunger, sex), DEATH (Thanatos – aggression and violence)

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Sigmund Freud

55
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knowing that’ (only is empty intellectualism) and ‘knowing how’

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Gilbert Ryle

56
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Neurophilosophy - the brain and the mind. The biochemical properties of the brain are responsible for man’s thoughts, feelings, and behavior

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Patricia and Paul Churchland

57
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Self-experience and the experience of other people

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Maurice Merleau Ponty

58
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The Study of the world around us

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Sociology

59
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The Self cannot be separated from the Society

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George Herbert Mead