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41 Cards in this Set
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Whats the difference between Having a Philosophy” vs.“Doing” Philosophy?
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Everyone has a philosophy, a collections of your beliefs that guide your actions.
“Doing” philosophy is to actively think critically about beliefs. |
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Who were the The origins of western philosophy?
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Presocratic Philosophers
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What is Mythos?
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Legends and Folktales, Supernatural
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What is Logos?
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Logical and Rational explanations.
Questions stuff |
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What was Thales answer to everything?
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Water
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Anaximenes suggested that everything is?
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Air
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What did Pythagoras do? And what was his theory to explain everything?
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• Interested in mathematics
• Studied the Length of strings on a stringed instrument He used blueprints or math to explain everything |
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How did Democritus Explain it?
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said the universe was composed of an indivisible matter called atoms.
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Parmenides thought that the universe was always?
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the constant and never changing
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Heraclitus thought that the universe was always?
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Changing and change is the basic to everything
“You cannot step twice into the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing in on you” – Fire always changes things |
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Who said Man is the Measure of All things.”?
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Protagoras
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Who believed that the Truth is relative.
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Sophist
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Who said “The Unexamined Life Is Not
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Socrates
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Is plato Pre-Socratic?
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NO
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What does apology mean?
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In defense of
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Who created the Academy and what was it?
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Plato. it was a school / place for all philosophers where they could stay how long they wanted
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Who wrote the books? Socrates or Plato?
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Plato
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What is dialectic method
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a question and answer method
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Who believed that there is an Absolute Knowledge/Truth and that is obtainable?
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Plato
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Describe plato's cave
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Plato suggested that we are all like men shackled in a cave, staring at a wall, seeing only reflections and shadows and mistaking them for the real thing---the substantial realities are outside the cave, beyond what our senses can now show us.
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Describe Plato's meaning of Philosophy is an "activity"
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Philosophy is an activity Ascending upward from the cave (of ignorance) to the light
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Describe Plato's meaning of Philosophy is a difficult activity.
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Philosophy is a difficult activity. The journey upwards involves questioning our most basic beliefs.
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Describe Plato's meaning of Philosophy’s aim is freedom.
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Philosophy’s aim is freedom. Ignorant are not free. (“Let the truth set you free!”)
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Describe Plato's meaning of Philosophy is the most basic concern of human existence.
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Philosophy is the most basic concern of human existence. To grapple with and seek to understand the most basic issues of our lives.
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“Philosophy” is a combination of two ancient Greek words, “Philein” and “Sophia”, which mean?
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“love of wisdom.”
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What does Philosophy pursue?
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a rational investigation of those mysteries and marvels, seeking wisdom and truth.
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What does Philosophy offer? Is it a mere speculation?
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it is Not mere speculation, It Offers reasons and Peer review
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Is Philosophy Dogmatic, (following something blindly without questioning)?
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No
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who were the men shackled in cave of ignorance?
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US, Humans
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What is the goal of philosophy?
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Autonomy. The freedom of being able to decide for yourself what you will believe in by using your own reasoning abilities.
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What is Epistemology
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The branch of philosophy that critically evaluates the nature, methodology, limitation, and origin of human knowledge.
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What is Metaphysics?
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a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being.
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What is ETHICS?
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The theoretical study of morality
• …is a code or set of principles by which people live by. |
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What is Logic?
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the branch of philosophy that reflects upon the nature of thinking itself.
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What is Aesthetics?
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The Study of Beauty and Art.
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What is The hallmark of philosophy?
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rational argument.
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The many into one is a concept of WHO?
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Pre-Socratic concept
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Who was Zeno?
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Student of Parmenides Who said that the world is unchanging and can prove it mathematically.
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Who is the father of western Philosophy?
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Socrates.
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Who were Sophists?
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Itinerate teachers who offered to provide their students with training in the effective exercise of citizenship.
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What was the charge put on Socrates?
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Corrupting the young children and being an atheist.
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