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Phl 180
Phl Gen Ed
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
12/13/2011

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Epistemology

Definition
The study of knowledge
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Metaphysics
Definition
Study of ultimate reality and truth
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Axiology
Definition
The study if quality and value
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Epicureans
Definition
absence of pain
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Stoics
Definition
Calm collected controlled resignation
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Cynics
Definition
societys drop outs
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skeptics
Definition
suspended judgment about things not evident
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General Revalation
Definition

Nature

Moral Law

Universal Patterns

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Special Revelation
Definition
§Old and New Testament
§Incarnation
§Miracles
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Thales
Definition
Water!
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Democritus
Definition
Atoms
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Paramedius
Definition
Constancy
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Heraclitus
Definition
fire
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Pythagoras
Definition
recarnation
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Anaxemenius
Definition
Air
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Anaximander
Definition
Evolution
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pre-socratics
Definition
1.Scientifically sophisticated
2.Diverse theories
3.Focused primarily on the external world
4.Identified the basic elements (water, fire, earth, air)
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Socrates
Definition

 

  • Focused on human condition

  • Opposed Sophists

  • Marketplace Philosophy

   • Oracle at Delphi named wisest man in the world

  

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Socrates
Definition
Platos Mentor
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Plato
Definition

Student of Socrates;

Wrote, The Republic and Apology

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Arsitotle
Definition

Plato's Stat students, very indifferent from Plato.

More into rational thinking rather then faith and religion like Plato

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Bertrand Russell, 20th-century atheist

Definition
Five Minute Hypothesis
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Rene Descartes
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The Dream Hypothesis
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Rene Descartes
Definition
Demon Hypothesis
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Source Skepticism
Definition
1.shows us that we cant offer any good evidence that our most basic belief-forming mechanisms are ever reliable.
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Radical Skepticism
Definition
1.shows us that we cant find any evidence to challenge a whole host of wild, counterintuitive proposals.
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Principle of Belief Conservation
Definition

A.K.A. The Principle of Least Damage: As we move through life, it is most reasonable to do the least amount of damage to our current beliefs as we accommodate new insights.

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John Locke
Definition

• First British Empiricist

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forms of monotheism
Definition

judaism

christianity

islam

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Naturalism
Definition
God doesn't exisit
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nihilsm
Definition
philosophy of despair
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Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
Definition
God is dead, father of postmodernism
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ATHEISTIC Existentialism
Definition

John-Paul Sartre

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Albert Camus

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