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His (Descartes) courage, however, sustained by his astounding philosophical wits, went on breaking the walls of what had been considered as the most prominent philosophy which was _____________.
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scholasticism
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The scholastics maintained their dictum that nothing is known unless the object of knowledge passes through the senses. In contrast, Descartes contended that the prevalent view is practically a ________.
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delusion
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Descartes constructed ____-_____________ as the irrefutable point of origin for every certitude.
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Descartes introduced the ___________-__________ view of nature, including human nature, in philosophy.
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mathematico-mechanical
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According to Descartes, a finite substance is entirely __________, although it is dependent on God.
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autonomous
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Descartes calls thinking substance (soul) ___ ________ and extended substance (body) ___ _______.
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Res Cogitans; Res Extensa
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Life and motion are brought about not by the soul, but by the vital motion that comes from within man which the thinker calls...
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“Spiritus Animales” or Animal Spirits.
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______ views of human nature lie in his ideas of labor and society.
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Marx's
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Marx believes that the mode of the means of the production of man's subsistence is the molder of his _____________.
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consciousness
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Marx does not adhere to the idea that is is man who forms society, instead,...
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...it is the other way around.
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According to Marx, without _____, nature per se has no meaning and value.
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labor
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Marx posits that the dialectic has three moments, to wit:...
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thesis, antithesis, and synthesis.
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Dialectical materialism, therefore, necessitates mans's ______ _____________ in the actual change of matter.
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active participation
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According to Marx, there are five epochs representing a definite kind of society. They are...
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primitive, ancient, feudalistic, capitalistic, and socialistic
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...primitive society is a crude form of _________.
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communism
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Marx says that in a _________ society, the ownership of private property is not practiced.
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primitive
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For Marx, it is the members of _______ society that practiced private property first.
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ancient
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In a ___________ society, the means of production centers on agriculture.
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feudalistic
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In a ____________ society, the means of production becomes industrialized because of the advent of science and technology.
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capitalistic
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In a capitalistic society, Marx says that the laborer is _________ from the social dimension of his produce.
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alienated
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Mars says that religion is an _____ of the people.
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opium
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