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philosophy unit II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| "Measure of a man" claims there are 3 conditions | Consciousness, Intelligence, Sentient |
| What makes a human alive in "Measure of a man" | Self awareness |
| Suffering and Spinoza | his structured childhood led to rebellion and breaking free to experience the world |
| Suffering and Siddhartha | Four Noble Truths |
| Suffering and Conclusions drawn | Suffering brings meaning to life |
| Spinoza and God | God is everything, but is not a person, yet a part of the world |
| Sub specie aeternitatis | God's perspective- taking this perspective will lessen suffering |
| how do we cause our suffering | living through our ego instead of living in harmony with the bigger picture |
| Siddhartha and liberation from wheel | only available in human world, escape=Nirvana reached |
| Four Noble Truths | Suffering= always in life Cause= Ignorance (believing we are independent beings) End= Purification of our minds and bodies The Path= Living ethically and with wisdom to be as sound minded as the Buddha's |
| Siddhartha life | sheltered prince who was either going to be a king or holy man. escaped confinement and saw an old man, sick person, corpse and poor person-> resulted in him leaving his luxury to gain enlightenment |
| Siddhartha's path to nirvana | Starved himself for 6 years to reach Nirvana ( didnt work), sat under a tree for 49 instead |
| Hobbes basic idea | no knowing of true good true evil. we all just live in a system of life with changing energy |
| State of nature | humans will compete for survival |
| all vs all | everyone will compete for resources |
| how to avoid horrible state of nature | create leviathan |
| leviathan | give in to the government to protect us from each other |
| eightfold path | middle path to Nirvana |
| Hobbes views on human nature | selfish and evil |
| Rosseau Basic Idea | believed man is good at the core, civilization corrupts man |
| Noble Savage | lives in societal solidarity that only cares for their immediate needs |
| Rosseau thought process | opposite of hobbes, nature has abundance |
| Homopuppy is who's thought process | Rosseau |
| Stoicism | Zeno |
| stocism basic idea | enduring hardship without complaining. transforms negative emotions to sense of perspective |
| stoics believe | all emotions come from within and our relations with others are more important than anything else |
| romanticism basic idea | Passion overwhelms rational part of mind → allows people to see deeper parts of life that rationality prevents us from seeing (truths revealed from irrational perspective) |
| romantic relationships are | fundamentally irrational |
| hegel | believed in historical progress. friction between the impact of the status quo (thesis) and the contradictions of the status quo (antithesis). |
| Dialecticism | places someone as part of the status quo or against it, no in between, progess is constant |
| hegel and the end of history | when all antithesises are solved |
| people are shaped | rather by what they oppose than by what they believe |
| Kierkegaard | biggest critic of hegel, we only exist if we act freely |
| Kierkegaard felt freedom | neither under his strict fathers ruling or in rebellion |
| “The Father of Existentialism” | Kierkegaard |