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16 Cards in this Set
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what is philosophy?
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the foundation of the Western Intellectual tradition "the meat and potatoes"
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Nietzsche
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plato was the first christian
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Who founded philosophy's several sub-disciplines?
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aristotle
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metaphysics definition
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"the study of being qua being" "after the physics"
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origin of the title "metaphysics"
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Andronicus of Rhodes
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epistemology definition
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the study of knowledge
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episteme
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intelligible, knowledge, being, truths, mind/soul
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doxa
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sensible, opinion, body, illusion, becoming
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Socratic Irony
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dissimulation of ignorance practiced by Socrates as a means of confuting an adversary
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Example of Socratic Irony:
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athens' concern for purity delays socrates death, socrates ignorance, socrates lack of imagination, socrates lack of imagination
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Why is Plato/Socrates opposed to the arts
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Art is about the senses, not the real things; impermanent; realm of forms = copies of originals
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How does Socrates account for his surprising poetic activity during his final hours?
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Socrates' dream
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How does suicide come up in the dialog?
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Socrates states that a philosopher ought to welcome death but suicide is not legitimate.
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explain the cyclical argument
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all things which have opposites are generated out of their opposites, passing from one state to another
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explain the recollection argument
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previous life of the soul, eternal truths, knowledge, we have everything before we are born
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explain the the argument from affinity:
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soul must be immortal because it knows immortal things
eternal: math lecturn: changing truth the body knows examples we must see thru actions and senses |
