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Name the three rationalists |
Descartes, Spenoza, and Leibnits |
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Name the three Empiricists |
John Locke, Berkely, Hume |
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Define Kantian idealism (Jam Jar) |
Knowledge can only be known through sensory data (nature) made sense through form (the mind) |
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Describe Descartes' main ideas (4) |
I think therefore I am; Methodic doubt; Priori and Posteriori ideas; Coherence theory |
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Describe Spenoza's main ideas (4) |
Rejection of "I think therefore I am"; Theory of substance (Monism -> God and us are the same); Theory of mind and substance; |
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Describe Leibnitz main ideas (3) |
First atomist (monads); First idealist; Principle of sufficient reason |
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Describe John Locke's main ideas (4) |
Blank slate theory; experience leads to ideas; Knowledge involves sensation and reflection; memories make us human |
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Describe Berkely's main ideas (4) |
Only God, finite entities, and knowledge exist; Sensation stems from the mind, thus the physical world does too; To be is to be perceived; Skeptic |
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Describe Hume's main ideas (4) |
Copy thesis; Senses tells us how something appears, whereas knowledge tells us what things are; Questioned causation, because he believed it was subjective and based on past experience; since past experience is rooted in the mind, we cannot even believe in it. |
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Describe Kant's main ideas (6) |
Reality is shaped by our mind, not inverse; knowledge is interpreted through content and form; Forms of sensibility (time and space); Knowledge isn't found, it's constructed; Theoretical and practical reason; Hypothetical and categorical imperatives |
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Contrast Kantian Theoretical and Practical reason |
Reason confined to empirical phenomenon Moral function of reason based on knowledge of moral conduct |
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Contrast Kantian Hypothetical, Practical. and Categorical imperatives |
Propositions that tell us what to do in the hypothetical Categorical imperatives universally binding foundations of moral law Practical imperatives are based on dignity |
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Describe Aquinas' main ideas (6) |
Dual levels of wisdom; Argument for God from motion; Three attributes for God; |
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Describe Aquinas' five proofs for God's existence |
Motion, cosmological, necessity, gradation, and design |
