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22 Cards in this Set
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socrates |
from athens Plato's teacher Main character in dialogues Never actually wrote anything Peloponessian war |
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plato |
socrate's student forms are universal, transcends physical reality |
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oracle of delphi |
claimed socrates was wisest in athens this caused him to go looking for the wisest and found none he is wisest because to be wise means to admit you dont know everything |
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gadfly |
socrates nickname because he wouldnt go away |
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socratic method |
method of questioning everything and confronting assumptions to see flaws and strengths in position |
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philosophical martyr |
lives by their philosophy and lives to teach others |
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socrates and suicide |
was given the option to go away with hemlock and die or be exiled. he chose suicide because he didnt want to abandon his beliefs |
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platonic dualism |
negative view of body, seen as soul trapped in body (prison) |
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nondualistic buddhism |
there is a continuity of of existence from birth to rebirth, but there is no enduring self or soul that is inside the body |
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dualistic hinduism |
person has soul inside body, different entities. human body is like a vehicle that carries a person from birth to birth |
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strong agnosticism |
unsure if god exists, believes no one can truly know |
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weak agnosticism |
unsure if god exists, but does not discredit that someone else may know if one exists |
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deism |
belief god created the universe, but remains separate, lets earth run with laws and rules, rejects supernatural aspects |
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pantheism |
monists, reality is divine, god is all |
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polytheism |
belief in one or more gods |
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strong atheism |
denies existence of any god |
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weak atheism |
absense of belief of gods, or theism |
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early period |
platos writing is more about the life, practices, and philosophy of socrates. positive conclusions, socrates is a questioner |
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middle period |
begin seeing platos independence from socrates, becomes more platonic, metaphysics of nature, |
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the apology |
platos writing to defend socrates in trial, wasnt really an apology |
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later dialogues |
parmenidies- examination of theory of forms theaetus-epistemology, what we know and how we know it |
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the sophists |
philosophers who charged fees for their work, argued truth is relative, socrates was against them and this upset the athenian government |
