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6 Cards in this Set
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Kant
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-Noumena vs. Phenomena
World-in-itslef vs. world as it appears to be -Mind contributes categories/rules/principles so that we can experience the world -object provides content -noumena: logical necessity -phenomena: human creation -transcendental idealism: mind provides form, object provides content |
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Locke
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-religious moderation and tolerance
-innate idea of perfection -Idea comes from sense perception -We understand a positive idea through experience, and a negative idea is something that we can only understand what it is not. -inductive logic (general to particular), deductive logic (particular to general) -meno -primary qualities of a substance- solidity - we can infer there is a world out there. |
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Berkeley
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-What is real is only what is real in the mind
Sujective idealism/immaterialism- all things exist in a thinking subject as an idea -"To be is to be perceived." -Existence of a given object can only be known if an donly if it is percieved by a thinking subject. -Ther eis only one substance in the world- mind/idea/spirit/soul -2 kinds of things: real thing (law of nature, not dependent on will) and image of thing (copy of real thing, dependent on will) -God makes sure we all have the same pattern of experience. |
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Leibniz
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-Idealist
-Best of all possible world -We are all monads -God placed a harmony within mondads so that we all experience things the same way |
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Zhuangzi
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-Apolitical, close relationships with nature
-Dao= deep and mysterious process informing all of life. -Dao- way or path -Dao is one but also many. -Correlative metaphysics -Yin-yang symbol: stresses virtue of harmony and sense of balance -Dao is the world and also of the world -Everything is in a constant flux of change. -Challenges are our overconfidence in our rational capacity in search of truth. |
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Hume
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-Empiricist- the source of knowledge comes from experiences
-Realist- the world is real and exists external/independent to us |
