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153 Cards in this Set
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Created the first university |
Plato |
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What book did plato write? |
the republic |
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everything is made of fire, water, air and earth |
aristotle |
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Everything is made of atoms |
Democritus |
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World is made of numbers |
Pythagorus |
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"You can never step in the same river twice" |
Heraclitus |
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Roots of Wester Philosophy |
Presocratics |
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Father of Western Philosophy |
Socrates |
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Method of clarifying/asking questions |
Socratic Method |
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Student of Socrates |
Plato |
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teacher of aristotle |
plato |
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father of metaphysics |
aristotle |
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first logician |
aristotle |
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father is existentialism |
kierkegaard |
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opposite of gods plan |
existentialism |
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father of modern existentialism |
jean p sartre |
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opposed kierkegaard on behalf of the church |
George F Hegal |
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You life is predetermined, gods plan |
determinism |
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you can predict what is going to happen |
mechanistic universe |
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believing in free will, opposite of determinism |
libertarianism |
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limited to our 5 senses and scientific proof |
empiricism |
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skeptic, athiest, empiricist |
david hume |
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A priori A posteriori |
Immanuel Kant |
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Things learned from our senses |
A posteriori |
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things learned outside of senses |
a priori |
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"philosophy has failed us" |
Immanuel Kant |
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"summas theologica" |
Thomas Aquinas |
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5 ways to prove the existence of god is in which book? |
Summas theologica |
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Attack on the rationality of belief |
Immanuel Kant |
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What title was given to thomas aquinas |
Doctorus angelus |
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Intelligent design argument or? |
teleological argument |
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Cosmological Watch Maker |
William Paley |
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There are morals, therefore god is real |
Moral Argument |
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Athiest |
Ernest Nigel |
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Father of Psychoanalysis |
Freud |
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Religious ideas are an illusion |
Freud |
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Illusions are not errors |
Freud |
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Start life with a blank slate |
John Locke |
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All items have two qualities |
John Locke |
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qualities that exist when no one is there to observe them |
primary |
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qualities that depend on the perciever |
secondary |
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materialist |
newton |
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"to be is to be percieved" |
Bishop George Berkley |
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Holographic Theory |
Michael Talbot |
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Father of Modern Science |
Democritus |
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Mind and Body are seperate |
Godfried Liebniz |
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Where do soul and mind come together |
Pineal Gland |
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Father of modern philosophy |
Rene descartes |
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Cogito Ergo Sum |
Rene Descartes |
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three major truths |
Rene descartes |
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malicious demon |
rene descartes |
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brain in a vat |
hilary putnam |
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hooked up to a machine thought experiemnt |
robert nozick |
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ghost in a machine |
gilbert ryle |
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Who wrote the Proslogian |
Saint Anselm |
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Synthesis of the Rationalism Emperialism |
Immanuel Kant |
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The Sophistical Refutation |
Aristotle |
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Ontological Approach |
Saint Anselm |
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Mechanistic Universe Believer |
Newton |
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Father of modern physics |
Newton |
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Matter and Energy cannot be created or destroyed |
First Law of Thermodynamics |
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Method of Doubt |
Rene descartes |
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Get the same rules for macro and micro universe |
Unified Field Theory |
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Copenhagen Interpretation |
Heisenberg and Bohr |
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quantum particles exist in all possible states at once |
Copenhagen interpretation |
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Small packets of light |
Quantas |
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You can never predict an electrons location |
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle |
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Multiverse: Everyone is possible until you verify what actually happened |
Schrodingers Cat |
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Factors are predetermined, not gods plan |
Scientific Determinism |
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Schrodinger created equations called wave functions |
Wave Particle Duality |
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Self Organizing Universe |
Chaos Theory |
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Small changes make a big difference far away |
Butterfly Effect |
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supersymmetric strings are the basis of all matter |
string theory |
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theory of relativity |
einstein |
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23% of the weight in the universe |
Dark Matter |
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63% of the weight in the universe |
Dark Energy |
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particle responsible for all mass |
Higgs Boson Particle |
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"A Brief History Of Time" |
Stephen Hawking |
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Increasing entropy increases time |
Thermodynamic |
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Direction of time in which the universe is expanding |
Cosmological |
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Direction in which we feel time is passing |
Psychological |
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Time is relative to other things |
Einstein |
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Time never changes |
Newton |
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Time is relevant to the event |
Buddhist |
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Veil of our senses |
John Locke |
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"the terrifying helplessness of childhood" |
Freud |
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Everything happens according to some regular set of physical laws |
Determinism |
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Truth is found by looking forward |
Existentialism/Buddhist |
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Nature of things at the subatomic level |
Quantum Theory |
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Many ways of understanding |
Relativism |
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One way of understanding |
Absolutism |
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Allows relativism and absolutism |
Pluralism |
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"I will make of you a great nation" |
Yahweh |
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"let my people go" |
Yahweh |
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Hebrew history is written is? |
The Torah |
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1st 5 books in the bible/torah is aka? |
The Old Testament |
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unite with yahweh |
judaism |
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love and forgiveness |
chrisitanity |
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people of the elephant |
islam |
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crucifixion, resurection, assention |
Christianity |
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You must judge others |
Judaism |
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You must not be a passivist |
Judaism |
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You must not judge your fellow men |
Christianity |
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You must not defend yourself |
Christianity |
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"If i am not for myself then who will be" |
Judaism |
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Final correction |
islam |
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you are born with a a priori knowledge of right and wrong |
islam |
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Mohammeds trip from mecca to medina |
Hijrah |
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Pilgrimage to mecca |
Hajj |
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Internal struggle to be the best muslim you can be |
Jihad |
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"When you know what is right, you will do what is right." |
Plato |
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Golden Mean |
Aristotle |
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Desirable middle between two extremes |
Golden Mean |
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endurance of pain with a display of feelings and without complaint |
Stoicism |
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The only distractions from choosing right and wrong is pain, so live a pleasantful life |
Epicureanism |
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People are distracted by society and its rules |
Cynicism |
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Ideas written in sanskrit |
Vedas |
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Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita, Brahma-Sutra |
Hindu Ideas |
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Reality is one |
Hinduism |
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What is the essence of everything? |
Brahman |
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All forms of life are sacred |
Ahimsa |
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Breaking rules results in what in Buddhism? |
Karma |
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The self is an illusion |
Buddhism |
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Based on relationships and you responsibility |
Confucianism |
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Acquire wisdom by examining nature and its tendancies |
Taoism |
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Catagorical Imperative: Morality Test |
Immanuel Kant |
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Greatest good for the greatest amount of people |
Utilitarianism |
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Father of Utilitarianism |
Jeremy Bentham |
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Greatest Happiness Principle |
Jeremy Bentham |
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Qualitative distinctions between arguments |
John stuart Mills |
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"I want to philosophize with a hammer" |
Nietzche |
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Humans are born naturally with a war mentality |
Hobbes |
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Humans are born neutral |
Locke |
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Humans natural state is of profound illness |
Nietzche |
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The survival Lottery |
John Harris |
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Moses leads hebrews out of egypt |
The Exodus |
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Finding the promised land |
Judaism |
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Scattering of the jews outside of israel and judah |
Diaspora |
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realist political theory called "The Prince" |
Machiavelli |
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"The end justifies the means" |
Machiavelli |
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"the leviathon" is written by? |
Thomas Hobbes |
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Father of Political Philosophy |
Hobbes |
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Social Contract Theory |
Hobbes |
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Our lives without society would be "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" |
Hobbes |
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In severe cases of abuse from the government you COULD rebel |
Hobbes |
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In severe cases of abuse from the government you HAVE to rebel |
Locke |
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Tabula Rasa |
Locke |
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Creation of wrong and right to protect our national rights |
locke |
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American constitution and declaration of independance |
Locke |
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Book called "Utopia" |
Sir Thomas More |
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Who references communism? |
Sir Thomas More |
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doesnt matter if god is real or not, theres no proof for either one |
agnosticism |
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branch of philosophy concerned with nature and scope |
epistemology |
