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His knowledge is through second hand information |
Socrates |
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An idea was tested by asking series of questions to determine underlying beliefs |
Socratic method |
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Socrate's ideas were: |
The soul is immortal The soul is the task of philosophy Virtue is necessary to attain happiness |
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The unexamined life is not worth living |
Socrates |
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Existence is of two kinds: |
Visible and invisible |
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Existence changes |
Visible |
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Remains constant |
Invisible |
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Defined as moral excellence |
Virtue |
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Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions to others |
Plato |
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Written by plato, socrates was the main character. What is this? |
Socratic dialogue |
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Gather of all generic ideas that seemed to have common characteristics and then divided into different kinds until it becomes specific |
Collection and division |
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He is best known for his theory of forms |
Plato |
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Three parts of the soul |
The appetetive The rational The spirited |
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Also called saint augustine of hippo |
Saint augustine |
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Aspects of the soul according to augustine |
Able to be aware of itself Recognized itself as complete It is aware of its unity |
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Father of modern western philosophy |
Rene descartes |
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A systematic process of being skeptical about the truth of one's beliefs in order to determine which beliefs could be ascertained as true |
Methodological skepticism |
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Cogito ergo sum |
I think therefore I am |
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Descarte's claim about self |
It is constant Immaterial soul remains the same The immaterial soul is the source of our identity |
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An intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the ideas in europe during the 18th century |
Age of enlightenment or age of reason |
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A philosopher and physician and was one of the most influential enlightenment thinkers |
John locke |
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Self consists of memory, the person existing now is the same as yesterday because they have memories of the past |
John locke |
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A fierce opponent of descartes |
David hume |
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theory that reason, rather than experience, is the foundation of all knowledge |
Rationalism |
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The idea that the origin of all knowledge is sense experience |
Emipiricism |
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The self is described as a bundle of different perceptions that are moving in a very fast and successive manner therefore it is in a perpetual flux |
Bundle theory |
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These are the perceptions that are the most strong |
Impression |
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Less forcible and less lively counterparts of impression |
Ideas |
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A central figure in modern technology |
Immanuel Kant |
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Two kinds of consciousness of self |
Consciousness in inner sense Consciousness In acts of apperception |
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The mental process by which a person makes sense of an idea by assimilating it to the body of ideas he or she already possess |
Apperception |
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Two components of the self |
Inner self Outer self |
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All knowledge is derived from human senses |
David humes |
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Human mind at birth is a tabula rasa, knowledge derived from experiencd |
John locke |
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All knowledge leads to God |
St. Augustine |
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I know that I dont know |
Socrates |
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Balance between mind and body |
Plato |