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HI 102 test 3
pages 359-362
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10/30/2011

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liberalism
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someone who desires freedom from something or freedom to do something
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Modern liberalism
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the desire to be free from absolute standards and morals, especially those of the Scriptures
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conservatism
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the principle or practice of conserving(preserving) established traditions or institutions and opposing changes in them
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Bible
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the most powerful conservative force through the ages has been the ________
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pseudosciences
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all related to one another in their desire to strike down absolute truth and rebel againsst God
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positivism
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nothing can known except observable scientific "facts"
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Auguste Comte
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A French philosopher who began the idea of positivism
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sociology
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Comte coined this term for his new "science" of human society
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Sigmund Freud
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a prominent Austrian psychiatrist who formed psychoanalysis
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pyschoanalysis
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says the subconscious physical drives or irrational fears determine a man's actions
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Ivan Pavlov, J.B. Watson, and B.F. Skinner
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formed the behavioral psychology
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behavioral psychology
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denies man's sinful nature by reducing man to the status of an animal or a machine
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pragmatism
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the philosophy that an idea or an action should be judged solely by its results, regardless of any moral or Scriptural considerations
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existentialism
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the "anti-philosphy" which claims there is not truth or reality, forcing man to make his own meaning in an absurd world
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Soren Kiekegaard
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A Danish philosopher who started existentialism
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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A German philosopher who based his ideas on his declaration that "God is dead"
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John Dewey
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started progressive education
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progressive education
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putting liberalism into education
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traditional education
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to pass to each individual the knowledge and wisdom learned in previous generations, and to train each individual to use his abilities for the glory of God and for the edification of his fellow man
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secularism
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the belief that matters of morality should be based on consideration of the well-being of mankind in this present life, to the exclusion of all considerations drawn from belief in God or in a future existence
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humanism
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dependence upon mans reasoning and feelings alone with no respect for God's authority; ultimately it is the worship of man
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Humanist Manifesto
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expressed point by the "faith" of humanism
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Humanist Manifesto II
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proposed "a design for a secular society on a planetary scale" and asserting that "traditional theism, especially faith in the prayer-hearing God...is an uproved and outmoded faith"
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