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31 Cards in this Set
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Mythology
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A story about the gods which sets out to explain why life is as it is.
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Rationalism
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Human reason is the primary source of knoldege in our world.
{Having unshakable faith in human reason.} |
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Materialism
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No spirit of force can intervene in the natural process.
The only things that exist are atoms which make up material items. |
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Fatalism
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Everything that happens is predestined. People have no free will. Man must never see himself as anything more than just a mortal.
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Skepticism
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People should doubt and make no philosophical judgments.
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Agnosticism
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Unable to say whether God or gods exist.
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Sophistry
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Truth is unknowable and attainable.
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Syncretism
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Fusion of Creeds, Hellenistic period; drew on Gods & beliefs of many old nations.
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Cynicism
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True happiness isn't found in material items.
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Stoicism
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Live without all emotions to attain happiness.
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Monism
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There is only nature. The individual and the universe are combined.
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Humanism
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A view of life with the individual as its central focus.
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Epicureanism
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The aim of life is to attain the highest amount of pleasure. Pleasure is good and pain is evil.
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Neoplatonism
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We are all connected to a god and we are all connected to each other.
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Mysticism
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Everyone and everything is God.
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Polytheism
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The belief in many gods.
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Manicheasism
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The world has good and evil, light and dark, and spirit and matter. With spirit, man can rise above the world and gain his own salvation.
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Natural Theology
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God has revealed Himself to mankind both through the Bible and reason.
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Idealism
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Crucial importance to the ideal or spiritual realm in its account of human existence.
Everything that exists is spiritual in nature. |
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Determinism
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The idea that everything that happens is predetermined by natural processes
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Empiricism
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Experience, especially through the senses, is the only source of knowledge.
There is nothing in the mind that we have not experienced through senses. |
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Romanticism
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Celebrate literature and value emotion over rationality.
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Deism
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God created the world a long time ago and left the world.
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Naturalism
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The material universe is all there is and everything operates by the natural law; nothing supernatural.
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Marxism
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Basis/superstructure of society, no absolutes or natural rights, work is a positive thing, and connected to the essence of mankind, revolution is necessary.
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Pantheism
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God is present in everything and/or everyone.
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Capitalism
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Production and distribution are privately owned and there is free market.
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Utopianism
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A perfect world and idolizing one's self.
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Relativism
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There is no universal standard for right or wrong.
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Individualism
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Everyone is a unique individual and everyone only lives once.
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Existentialism
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The individual is most important. People are free and responsible for themselves. Truth is relative.
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