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19 Cards in this Set
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A PRIORI & A POSTERIORI IN PLATO |
Knowledge comes from recolection. We are born with knowledge from other lives and we just recollect things instead of learning. Knowledge is a priori for Plato. |
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A PRIORI & A POSTERIORI IN DESCARTES |
Knowledge of God is innate. Therefore we are born with such knowledge and it is a priori. |
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A PRIORI & A POSTERIORI IN HUME |
Impressions come to us through experience prior to ideas, memories and such. Therefore all of our knowledge comes a posteriori to experiences. |
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A PRIORI & A POSTERIORI IN SARTRE |
Existentialism comes before essence. We exist but have no purpose, then we experience things in life and find out purpose in life. Therefore, our knowledge is a posteriori. |
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WILL & FREEDOM FOR DESCARTES
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We are always coersed to doing something out of clear and distinctive knowledge. We are not so free in our choices, we kind of just do things by what we are used to or comfortable with. |
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WILL & FREEDOM FOR HUME |
We base everything in chance and probability; therefore, we do not do anything out of pure freedom if we are always coersed by doing something or not doing something because of probability and chance. |
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WILL & FREEDOM FOR SARTRE |
Your will is what you want to become; what kind of person you want to become. Which also reflects on who you want everybody else to become. |
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WILL & FREEDOM FOR HEGEL |
Our freedom comes about through art and through how we express ourselves. We have the freedom in art to express ourselves however we want to.
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EXISTENTIALISM |
Existence comes before essense. First we exist, we are born, but we are born in a tabula rasa. We first got to experience things in life to then be able to formulate a sense of being. |
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GOD'S EXISTENCE for Sartre |
Just like any help book or any psychologist, for Sartre God's existence does not matter because even with all of God's laws, He is still irrelevant in helping us make life choices. In the end of the day we still have got to make these choices alone. |
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WHAT DOES WILL MEAN FOR SARTRE? |
Will is who you want to become, what kind of person you want to be and the choices you make accordingly. Also reflects on who you want everybody to become. |
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HOW DO WE MAKE CHOICES FOR SARTRE? |
We make choices based on the person we want to become, based on our will. We also make choices according to how they would be viewed in the world and how they would reflect in the world based in a sense of community. |
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WHY IS SARTRE'S BOOK CALLED "EXISTENTIALISM IS A HUMANISM" |
Because as finding our place in this world through experiences, all the choices we have in society is what hapes humanity. Therefore, existentialism is a humanism; it shapes humanity. |
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WHAT IS SUBJECTIVITY FOR SARTRE? |
Being an individual agent, someone who makes choices. We all make choices alone, we will die alone and we feel things such as abandonment, anguish and despair and make many choices under those three feelings. |
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INDIVIDUALITY & SOCIETY FOR SARTRE |
Individuality: That we all have our own point of view in things, our own interests. Society: That even though we all have our own point of view on things, our choices effect society. |
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WHY IS HEGEL NOT STUDYING BEAUTY IN NATURE? |
Beauty in nature has a purpose; therefore, he is not quite interested in studying it. A lot has already been said about it; it is quite vague and not beauty for beauty's sake. Also beauty in nature is not made by the freedom of the mind. |
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WHY IS HEGEL STUDYING BEAUTY IN FINE ART? |
He is studying beauty in fine art because not only is it beauty for beauty's sake, it is made by the most absolute freedom of the mind coming together. |
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WHY NOT LOOKING @ FINE ART THAT IS FOR A PURPOSE? |
When Fine Art is created as a means to an end it is not made by the most absolute freedom of the mind. |
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WHAT ARE THE THREE EPOCHS OF ART? |
First Epoch: Ancient Greek - They made statues, which were a direct representation of God. The statues themselves were divine things. Relation between Art and God was immediate. Third Epoch: Modern - At this point we need a science of art. Beyond the stage of both last epochs. Art has gone from means to an end to an end in itself and therefore to understand it we need a science. |
