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22 Cards in this Set
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What does "Philosophy" mean? |
Love of wisdom |
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A living being is a person when? |
They have a body, soul and a mind |
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This philosopher comes from money, is the father of modern philosophy, stayed in bed all day until he had an idea, died in Sweden, was a dualist, thinks he found the part in the brain that allows the mind and body to communicate |
Descartes |
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Believes a person is a thing made out of two aspects, both mental and physical |
Dualism |
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Believes a human person is made out of one substance (physical) and denies mental substance even exists |
Materialism |
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Believes the only things that exist are ideas and the minds who have those ideas. Everything is an illusion. |
Idealism |
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Believes that God knows everything you think and he pulls the "strings" to make your body do what the thought/mind wants. (Feel pain, waving, walking, talking) |
Dualist Occassionalists |
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God, who made "created substance", constant for all eternity |
Eternal substance |
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Physical and mental aspects of a person |
Created substance |
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The only combination of eternal and created substance |
Jesus |
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This philosopher was a materialist, thought brains were just physical substance and the only thing you have (no mind or soul), thought there was no afterlife whatsoever, went after Descartes, thought that brains did things, and what they did simply did not actually exist |
Ryle |
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This philosopher was a dualist, argued against Ryle, thought everyone was a property dualist |
Moreland |
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When there are two different ways to describe a person. Physically (weight, height) and mentally (quick-witted, intelligent) |
Property Dualist |
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Choose a side, provided examples |
Descartes |
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Find the top competition and shoot them down |
Ryle |
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No one can /prove/ either side so I will show you which one seems better. |
Moreland |
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Philosopher who practiced first as a physician, thought the body was important but not interesting, thought the soul contained everything from personality to gifts/talents/knowledge, had the Memory Theory |
John Locke |
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Philosopher who did not believe in a body and that you simply perceive the body and mind. Very friendly guy and did not walk or talk by his own theories. Just liked to confuse people |
Hume |
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Name meant large and square, athlete, in the greek Olympic games, was in the military, rich kid, academic coach was Socrates, bought a property and let the man live there still, first to name something "Academy", allowed women to study and fought for their rights, dualist, body and soul, we ARE a soul and we HAVE a body, the body is evil, soul is eternal and is stuck in a male or female body |
Plato |
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Believed the soul would not die, did not escape prison because he thought his body was the prison, wanted to be put to death, died hours before supposed to |
Socrates |
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Materialist, knew Ryle, Atheist, wrote "why I am not a Christian", thought our fear of death was why we believe in an afterlife |
Russell |
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Defended the Christian point of view, no one but God is eternal, in the afterlife we can recognize people and there are no illnesses or handicaps, thought the body was a learning experience, you had a new body in the afterlife if your old one was damaged or you did not die in the prime of your life |
Hick |
