Phil 101

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philo-sophia= Philosophy

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Lover of
Wisdom

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History of Philosophy

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examines various views held by philosophers. To understand the view and determine if its true and well-supported

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Logic

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Science that studies the methods and principles by which correct reasoning is distinguished from incorrect ones

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Metaphyscs

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What is real? What is the nature of reality?

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Ontology

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used often synonymously with metaphysics

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Epistemology

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study or theory of knowledge
How does knowledge differ from belief?
what can one know?

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Ethics

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Philosophical study of certain aspects of morality and of the language of morals. (practical discipline-aristotle)

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Meta-ethics

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analyzes ethical terms and concepts, and evaluates normative ethical theories
ex) what is the meaning of terms or concepts.

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Normative Ethics

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constructs a normative theory by which human actions may be judged
ex) what makes an action morally good or right?

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Applied Ethics or Casuistry

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considers hoe ethical principles ought to be applied to particular situations.

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Aesthetics

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Branch of phil-> Beauty.

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Axiology

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Not only concerned with value, but more generally with every sort of value.
ex) What makes anything valuable?

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Pre-Socratic

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What is the underlying "stuff" of the universe?
How does change occur?

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Naturalistic/rationalist

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Explanations

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Pre-socratic philosopher

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Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras, Paramenides, Heraclitus

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Milesians/ Milesian materialist

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Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes.

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Thales

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Often referred to as the "Father of philosophy"

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Pythagoras

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Was part of a religious brotherhood that followed Ophic religion. A geometer. Believed that the psyche was purified by the study of geometry and music, as well as by study of the ordered underlying unity of the university, the Kosmos.

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Reincarnation

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The view that the soul does not die, but inhabits a series of bodies whereby it is perfected through various lives, with the ultimate aim of becoming so perfect that it can escape the cycle of rebirth

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Ratio

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Ability to measure this relationship in a predictable way.

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Pythagoras's Player

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Politically or otherwise active

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Pythagoras's Vendors

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Those whose efforts are primarily directed to the life of money making

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Pythagoras's Spectors

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Those who want only to understand and enjoy the game which he likens to philosophers

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Pythagoras's theory of the underlying universe

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The order pre-exists in reality before the human mind discovers it

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Heraclitus

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Everything changes

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Parmenides

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Nothing changes

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Logos

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"Word, reason, or law"
ability to reason and the reasoning done by a person

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Hercalitus logos

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Logos is the underlying law that accounts for the change of everything else

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Parmenides on Being

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Being is; Being is one; Being is not generated; Being cannot be destroyed and Being cannot change; Being is the same as the object of thought

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Naturalistic

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studies nature without offering mythological explanation

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Rationalistic

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attempts to determine the nature of reality by reasoning

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cosmological

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assumes there is an order to the universe

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metaphysical

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addresses the question, What is real or fundamental, not subject to change?

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Hylozoistic

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assumes all matter is alive

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monistic

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assumes just one underlying principle

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The sophists

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Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Hippocrates, Phidias, Thucydides and
SOCRATES

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Protagoras

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"man is the measure of all things, of the things that are , that they are and of the things that are not, that they are not."

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Epistemological relativism

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Whatever any individual thinks is true really is true

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Ethical Relativism

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Clams that there are no objective moral statements, since whatever any person thinks is morally right, really is morally right.

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