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What is the absolute?
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God or Ultimate Reality, Atman Brahman for the Vedic. Not relative, lacks nothing, complete, unmodified.
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What is the absolute in metaphysics?
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God or Ultimate Reality. That which necesssarily exists and depends on nothing else. Personal or Quasi personal being. Parmenides sphere, Plato, Hegel, timeless, eternal...
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What is abstract, what draws away?
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Mind. Quality, ideas, concepts, numbers, classes, prepositions, math. Not concrete, physical things.
No location in space/time. |
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What does Hegel think of Abstraction?
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Objects are also abstract because we think of them in isolation from the whole where they belong.
Isolated human being is abstract. Only the whole is not abstract. ONLY TRUTH = WHOLE TRUTH ALL ABSTRACTION HAS SOME FALSIFICATION |
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What is 'to abstract"?
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Considering some aspects of the whole.
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What is the absurd?
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Out of tune
ill-sounding. Self-contradictory, false. VIOLATES RULES OF LOGIC. Existentialists: human existence, it lacks ultimate purpose and meaning. |
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What is acatalepsy?
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Akatelepsia. Unintelligibility, non-understanding.
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What is an accident or contigency?
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A property that a thing can have, but it is not necessary.
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT P, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT NOT P. Contrary to essence which a thing must have. CAN'T EXIST ON ITS OWN, only in a substance. |
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What is cosmos?
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World Order.
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What is acosmism?
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Denial of the reality of the world.
Hegel took Spinoza to deny real exisstence of things and asserts that all that exists is God. |
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What is acroamatic?
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To be heard orally, lecturing.
Contrast to Erotematic: Logic of Questioning pupils to elicit knowledge. |
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What is Act-consequentialism?
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Act-utilitarianism.
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What are acts and omissions doctrine?
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They are morally different even though consequences are the same.
To perform an act that will foresee bad consequences is morally worse THAN a failure to act with the same bad foreseen consequences. "KILLING IS WORSE THAN LETTING DIE" "WORSE TO DO HARM THAT ALLOW HARM TO BE DONE" |
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What is actualism?
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What is actual exists.
What is possible does not exist. (alvin plantinga). Opposes possible worlds theory. |
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What is actualism morally?
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Actual consequences rather than expected, probable ones determines what is right.
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