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12 Cards in this Set
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What are the five types of philosophy |
Epistemology Metaphysics Aesthetics Political philosophy Ethics |
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What is epistemology |
Questions about knowledge |
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What is metaphysics |
Time, space, god, cause, reality |
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What is ethics |
Good and bad |
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What is political philosophy |
How to organise and run society |
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What is aesthetics |
Art and beauty |
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Plato's cave analogy |
There are two different worlds. The empirical world, and the world of forms. Nothing in the empirical world is real, as it keeps on changing. Only the things in the world of forms is real |
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The teleological or design arguement |
The universe is so perfect there must have been a designer for it |
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Religious experiences |
Numinous Prayer Miracles Conversion Mystical |
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Augustian theodicy |
God created a world without evil. The evil we know to be true is simply the absence of good |
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Irenean theodicy |
The world wasn't created perfectly because morality developed through hard work is more reliable than pre-programmed robotic morality |
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Marx theory |
True happiness in society can only be achieved by banning religion |
