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11th Grade
12/16/2009

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Term
marx
Definition
capitalism- goal=cheap production, so exploitation results, in order to make profit, workers get paid less than the value of their work.

4 problems w/ being in a matrix: not connected w/ product (cant ever have it), alienated from productive activity/ self, alienated from species being, alienated from others
slave is a subject bcause they feel production
Feticism of commodity: we think a product has always been der.
Term
descarte
Definition
we cant trust our senses, i think therefore i am, vision percieves us
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Hagel
Definition
master-slave, master is not a subject bc he receives recognition from objects
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altucer
Definition
we dont live in reality, we have an imagined relationship with reality
ideological state apparatus shapes us
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american born chink
Definition
transformations, authenticity of self, culture, appearence, you become what you practice, there is more to something than wut meets the eye
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epictetus
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dont b attached to someone, want events to happen as they happen, u can only control internal,
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herakleitos
Definition
natural order, logos, knowledge isnt intelligence, eyes>ears, expect unexpected, education is useless unless u can apply it, everything is changing, opposites are dependent, everyone can contribute, humans are in control(not fate)
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socrates
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questioned society, born w/ knowedge but hav to remember it, gadfly,
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diogenes
Definition
self-govern, nonconform, rid self of artificial desires/materials, animals- compares himself to dog and praises life of mice, ridicules wealth, cynic, lived way he preached, thinks the role of a philosopher is to b insulting, cant find an honest man, dont be dependent, master is dependent on slave, insulting tone, minimum, freedom from views of society,
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ubuntu
Definition
i am bc u r
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big fish
Definition
water= ideology
fish= suffering to woman, but pleasure to kid
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matrix
Definition
bits and pieces of info- for wut we dont know, we use ideology to substitute for them
artificial intelligence- we have an imagined relationship w/ reality (altucer would agree)(like UG for math and science) (marx would say when in a machine its all artificial)(descarte would say its always articifial)

the matrix was built to keep us under control(altucer would say situations make us act in certian ways)

hard to see truth (common to all philospphers, especially Descarte)

we can never free a mind to late- reality given to late causes doubt of previous self (hera would b agaisnt this)

2 kinds freedom- in matrix(not having to cope with reality) out of matrix(unplugged, concious, free from the fakeness)

the matrix cannot tell u who u r( altucer and marx would disagree saying situations effect people)

to deny impulse is to deny humanity (UG, marx)

morpheus (american born chinese, flux (hera))
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aristotle
Definition
catagorizing, virtuous mean, habituation?,
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epicurus
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pleasure=absense of pain, goal of life = pleasure, nothing fearful in life bc nothing fearful in the absence of life, long term, moderation,prudence, not good to be lucky, friendship
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aureliu
Definition
in debt owes to people, living in present, self-control, awareness, power to react, impulse to act/not act, thankful that he was never put to teh test to see if he would lose his cool, respect soul , wut is good is human
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