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31 Cards in this Set
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Freedom or Liberty |
It is a social and political concept which has a great significance on how people participate in society. -issued on 18th century in Europe during the Age of Elightenment |
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Two types of Liberties: Positive Liberty |
Refers to a person taking control of his or her own life and fulfilling one's potential |
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Two types of Liberties: Negative Liberty |
Refers to a freedom from external restraint, barriers, and other intererences from other people |
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Liberalism |
Upholds the preservation of individual rights and stresses the role of the government in protecting these civil liberties. |
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Libertarianism |
Believes that the individual, not the government, is the best judge in upholding and exercising the rights. |
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Socialism |
Considers freedom as the freedom to acquire economic resources and the ability to work and act according to one's desires. |
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Existentialism |
Freedom is exercised through choices (Main tenet of this that we are the authors of our own lives that the plot twists are not the products of fate or destiny, but of our own choices) |
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Existentialist |
People who argue that freedom should not only be conceived as an idea or notion. |
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Personality Consolidation |
Freedom as choosing for oneself that leads to ____________________ |
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Soren Kierkegaaard (1813-1855) |
Main precursor of this movement. (Freedom as choosing for oneself that leads to personality consolidation) |
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to choose |
Freedom is related to our capacity __ ______ |
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Freedom |
Means exercising our capacity to make decisions, choose our life path and direct the course of our lives through our own steering. |
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A lot of daily work |
Genuine freedom is acted upon, it requires _ ___ __ _____ ____ |
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Natural Rights |
Refers to innate the rights of a person such as the right to life. These rights are considered universable and alienable |
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Legal Rights |
Rights that are based on society's customs and laws, and are enacted by legistlation and enforced by a government. |
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Human Agency |
Refers to the capacity of a person to act and exert control over his or her behavior. |
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Free Will |
Is the capacity to choose from alternative courses of action or decision. |
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Free Action |
Freedom to perform an action without any obstacle or hindrances |
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Faculties Model |
Refers to free will as the use of our mental facilities. It assumes that we have free will due to our intellect and that each human action is based on rationality and sound judgement. |
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Hierarchical model |
Argues that free will is based on human wants and desires that need to be met |
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Reasons-responsive view |
Believes that man has free will because he or she is able to entertain reasons not to enact a certain decision and act upon them when the need arises |
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Preventions from exercising our freedom |
-prohibitions of law and other social controls imposed by society -coercion, exerted by another person -weather, accidetns or poverty -physical condition |
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Determinism |
A philosophical view that believes that every event in the world is brought about by the underlying factors or causes. |
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Marxist Philosophy |
This the most evident in _______ ___________ that believes that society imposes certain controls on people, and that person's social group largely influences how he or she thinks or acts. |
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Theology |
The issue between free will and determinism is also important in ________. -they discuss free will agains the concept of an omniscient God |
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Moral Responsibility |
-free will is necessary for _____ ____________ -refers to a person's status of deserving praise and reward, or blame and punishment for an action. |
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Social act |
The exercise of freedom is a ______ ___ |
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Responsibility |
Freedom is not a privilege, but a _______ |
When one commits oneself to fulfilling it before witnesses; when one is prepared to defend it with good reasons. |
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Refuse |
When we ______ to make choices, we are afraid to show ourselves to the world. |
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Body and soul |
Making a choice and commit oneself to is to put oneslef out there - ____ and ____ - for all the world to see. |
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We are creating ourselves |
Existentialist maintains that when we make a decision among a set of choices, it is not just a strong resolve __ ___ _________ _____________ |
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