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Later Greek Schools (4)
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Stoics
Epicureans The Skeptics or Pyrrhthonians, Neo-Pyrrhthonians, Academians Electics |
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When Aristotle died, philosophy retrogressed. Ancient errors were revived like: (3)
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scepticism
materialism pantheism |
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the material world is the only reality
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Cosmological materialism
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God is the soul of the world. He is a kind of fire and of this fire, the human soul, is a spark
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pantheism
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everything exists and happens by fixed law and necessity
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Determinism
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the only way to happiness is that of stolid and passionless endurance
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Motto "Bear and Forbear"
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The Stoics (4)
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Cosmological materialism
pantheism Determinism Motto "Bear and Forbear" |
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Man can have no true intellectual knowledge but only the knowledge that comes from the senses
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Sensism
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quest for what is sweetly pleasing
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Hedonism
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the best life has to offer is the avoidance of pain to achieve serenity of mind and heart
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Pessimism
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the bodily world is made of a cluster or particles, variously united by sheer chance to form things
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Materialistic Optimism and Casualism
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The Epicureans (4)
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Sensism
Hedonism Pessimism Materialistic Optimism and Casualism |
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Describe the Skeptics or Pyrrhthonians, Neo-Pyrrhthonians, Academians
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Pessimistic, amoral, and stoical
Philosophy & Science are necessary The best a man can do is to seek quietness and imperturbability of the mind |
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to choose out
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Electics
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True philosophy is asattered presemeal and it is the business of the philosopher to ___ ___
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sift it out
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the test for authentic philosopher is ___ ___ ___ plus kind of ___ ___ or ___ which proclaims ___ or indicate its presence
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person's direct experience
"Inner voice" Instinct truth |
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Jewish Philosophy
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Greco
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There was an attempt to ___ Greek philosophy by ___ with the ___ ___ ___ by ___ and ___
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synerelize
Plato Old Testament Scriptures Aristobulus Philo contemporary of our Lord 25 B.C |
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Greco - Jewish Philosophy (2)
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The Holy Scriptures is the source of all truth
Philosophy is unfilled with revelation |
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Philo's system is ___ ___ ___
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materialistic
pantheistic pessimistic |
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Plotenus
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Neoplatonism
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Plotenus taught that there is a tormless supreme being called ___. From this being emerges ___ ___ ___ ( ___ ). From Nous comes the ___ or ___
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the one
mind of intelligence Nous World-Soul Demurge |
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Teachings of Plotinus are (3)
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pathestic, hylozoistic, and materialistic
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gnostikoi or the enlightened ones
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Gnosticism
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Gnostics claim to have a special divine illumination or ___ knowledge or enlightenment which is denied to ordinary men
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gnosis
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God cannot come in contact with matter because matter is ___ ___ and God is ___ ___
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wholly vile
all per |
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God created special things; these created other less perfect that themselves; these created-others still less perfect, and so on until the ___ ___ spiritual beings created the ___ ___
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least perfect
bodily world |
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___ or ___ is the source of all evil. The ___ ___ is the source of ___ in man
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Matter
bodiliness human body evil |
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___ is different from ___
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Jesus
Christ |
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The course of philosophy after Aristotle (6)
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The Later Greek Schools
Greco - Jewish Philosophy Neoplatonism - (Plotenus) Gnosticism - (gnostikoi or the enlightened ones) Manicheism Patristic Philosophy (Father of the Church) |
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Manner of Main holds the theory of two first principles, on of ___ and ___, the other of ___ and ___ (___ and ___)
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goodness and light
evil and darkness God and Satan |
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Each human being is a mixture of ___ and ___
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good and evil
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Father of the Church
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Patristic Philosophy
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___ ___ ___ ___ taught that the ___ ___ ___ is adequate to attain ___ with ___
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St. Agustine of Hippo
mind of Man truth with certitude |
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God made all living bodily creatures (expect man) in ___; God gave to certain particles of matter a kind of ___ ___ or ___ ___ is to develop into plants and animals
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germ
seed force ratio seminal |
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Man's soul is ___ and ___ ___
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spiritual
immortal substance |
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The soul is drawn from the soul of parents
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Traducianism
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The origin of the soul is the inheritance of ___ ___
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Original Sin
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Each soul is immediately created by the ___ ___ at the movement it is joined with its body in the bosom of the mother (also a definition by ___)
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Almighty God
Creationism |
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God is to be known, love and served in the life
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Beatific Vision
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The law of morality for man is ___ ___
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Eternal Law (God Himself)
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order set up by God and forbids it to be disturbed
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Natural Law
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The perfection of philosophy (middle age)
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Article 1: The factors of the Perfection of Philosophy
Article 2: Some great philosopher of the Age of Perfection |
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Article I (3)
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Intellectual atmosphere in which men of genius went to work
question that engaged their attention (themes) equipment with which they undertook their task |
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spirit of the times, interested and temperaments of the people Parish and cathedral schools were established. The Catholic church ahs ever been the true mother of ___, ___, and ___ ___ (definition)
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education, philosophy, and solid science
Atmosphere |
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Nature and value of Knowledge
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Themes
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there are universal essences in the world of reality outside our minds
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Extreme Realism or Ultra Realism
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the human mind is built to form ideas
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Conceptualism
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grouping of things
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Nominalism
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outside the mind, only individual things exist
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Moderate Realism
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*Themes*
There are four doctrines possible in the matter of universals: |
Extreme Realism or Ultra Realism
Conceptualism Nominalism Moderate Realism (Qualified Realism) |
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libraries, writings, printed books
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Equipment
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union of the power of man moment (after 5 centuries of study)
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Movements
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Article I (4)
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Atmosphere
Themes Equipment Movements |
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Some great philosophers of the Age of Perfection
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Article 2
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Describe Anselm
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Foremost philosopher of the 11th century
Distinguished theology and philosophy His credo was "i believe that i may understand" |
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He maintained that the use of reason (___) is the greatest value in the setting forth the ___ of ___
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rationalism
truth of faith Abelard |
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*define*
God is complied by this goodness to create the best of all possible worlds (___ ___) |
(cosmological optimism)
Theological necessitarianism |
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Avicenna & Averroes
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The Arabians
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The Arabians
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Avicenna & Averroes
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author of the book ___ ___ used as text books by medical students
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Canous of Medicine
Avicenna |
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There is a common intellectual agenda (ideas already formed for all men)
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Philosophy
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*define*
Individual man has no ___ at all. His knowing power are the ___; Man has no ___ ___ but has an ___ ___ |
intellect
senses spiritual soul immortal soul Averroes |
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what is true in philosophy may be false in theology
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Twofold doctrine
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EX: mercy killer; birth controllers
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Twofold doctorine
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The Arabians (4)
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Avicenna
Philosophy Averroes Two Fold doctrine |
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*define*
(___ ___) His works are many & Aristolellan |
universal Doctor
Albert the Great |
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3 Grades of mental abstraction
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physical order
mathematical order metaphysical order |
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Thomas Aquinas
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All human knowledge takes its beginning in the action of the senses on the body world around us
Three grades of mental abstration (physical order, mathematical order, metaphysical order) |
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"The subtle Doctor"
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Seatus
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*define & by whom* the human soul has ___ & ___ |
spiritually & immortality
Plurality of forms theory Seatus |
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His theory of knowledge is "Terminism"
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William of Ockham
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"things are not be multiplied without need"
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Ockham's Razor
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Ockham: (2)
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His theory of knowledge is Terminism : (Norminatism)
"Things are not to be multiplied without need" - Ockham's Razor |
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Philosophers of the Age of Perfection
Also refers to the Medieval Philosophers |
Anselm
Abelard The Arabians - Avicenna & Averroes Albert the Great Thomas Aquinas Seatus Ockham |