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Borderline situation (philosophy) = Jaspers
Existentialism is humanism Sartre
Man is condemned to freedom Sartre
Hobbes phrase about humans Man is a wolf to man
Quality that distinguishes humans from others = Individualism
Confucius and Mencius believed humans are = Inherently good
Artman means = Highest individual subjective principle Highest individual subjective principle
Relationship between man and society
Reason in Sufism/Islamic philosophy leads to = Approach to Allah
Massification of humans = Marcuse
Socialization means = Assimilation of social norms
Highest degree of beauty in man and society = Aesthetic ideal
Author of “The Selfish Gene” = Dawkins
War of every man against every man = Hobbes
Main meaning of existentialism = Human existence
Will to life = Nietzsche
Philosophy based on individual choice = Existentialism
Medieval philosopher argued likeness to God = Thomas Aquinas (or Augustine)
Modern era values = Reason and nationality
Meaning of life as serving people = Altruism
Ataraxia means = Equanimity, impassivity
Ability to create mental images = Imagination
Purification of emotions through art = Catharsis
“There is beauty in everything but not everyone sees it” = Confucius
Author of “The Great Book of Music” = Al-Farabi
Kant discusses artistic creativity in = Critique of Judgement (not Practical Reason)
Dionysian and Apollonian elements distinguished by = Nietzsche
Totality of artistic features of a work = Artist’s style
Art expresses worldview of = The artist
Sign of artistry of a work = System of criteria
Art according to Schiller depicts = Supersensible
Main structural units of art = Types of art
Founders of cinematography = Lumière brothers
Antonio Gaudí is = Spanish architect
Sistine Madonna is housed in = Old Masters Gallery, Dresden
Biographies of famous sculptors written by = Giorgio Vasari
Renaissance artist precursor to surrealism = Bosch
Function of art fostering taste = Aesthetic function
Schelling’s classification of art forms = Real and Ideal
Mass culture emergence caused by = Industrial development
Practical utilitarian approach to art leads to = Loss of specificity of art
In relation to the sublime in art man is = Alienated
Deep reflection of reality in art = Artistic truth
Aesthetic consciousness unites = Concepts, images, emotions
Subject of art is = Reality through artist’s personality
Highest degree of beauty = Aesthetic ideal
Associative artistic process is = Artistic knowledge
Primitive man created = Painting, graphics, sculpture
Art and theory of interpreting texts = Hermeneutics
Pleasure from matching ideal object = Aesthetic pleasure
Greek idea governing art creation = Mimesis
Hermeneutics means = Art of explanation and interpretation
Aesthetic attitude determined by = The beautiful
Five proofs of God’s existence = Thomas Aquinas
Religio means = To bind, connect
God in all nature = Pantheism
Religion is opium of the masses = Marx
Ancient Egyptian sacred text = Book of the Dead
Sacred book of Zoroastrianism = Avesta
Source of fear: religion and death = Epicurus
Early Buddhist texts = Tripitaka
Most complete info about early Buddhism = The Three Baskets
First Noble Truth Life is suffering
Faith vs philosophy incompatibility = Al-Ghazali
Ontological argument by = Anselm of Canterbury
Philosophical basis of Augustine = Neoplatonism
If belief helps life, believe = William James
Eight faces of Allah author = Abai
Abai: power of the Most High is in = Science and mercy
Author of “Canons of Islam” = Shakarim
Six Vedic schools = Vedanta, Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Mimamsa
French Enlightenment worldview = Anticlericalism
“Less superstition…” quote = Voltaire
Doctrine of final fate of world = Eschatology
True engine of history = World Spirit (Hegel)
Caste system classical form found in = India
Buddhism differs from Vedic tradition by = Liberation through realizing illusion of self
Not a world religion = Judaism
Open society concept by = Popper
Dominant culture imposing on others = Orientalism
Basic social questions solved by = Rational knowledge (Rousseau)
Social contract in France = Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan becomes = The State
Utopian social program “City of the Sun” by = Campanella
Founder of utopian socialism, wrote “Utopia” = Thomas More
History is progress of spirit in freedom = Hegel
Economic progress ≠ moral progress = Spencer
Civilization is final stage of culture = Spengler
Method used by Spengler = Morphology
Cause of transformation of culture to civilization = Technology dominance
Central idea of Spencer = Evolution
Ideal type concept by = Max Weber
Arnold Toynbee concluded = Many civilizations exist
Civilizations respond to challenges = Toynbee
Origin of totalitarianism traced to Plato by = Popper
In “Third Wave” new society is = Information society
Postindustrial society concept by = Daniel Bell
Socioeconomic formation concept by = Marx
Difference between culture and civilization by = Spengler
For Spengler, civilization = Decline of culture
Open and closed society authors = Bergson and Popper
Opposition culture vs civilization described in = Spengler “Decline of the West”
When rulers cease being wise, aristocrats lead to = Timocracy
Weber’s three types of authority = Rational, traditional, charismatic
Durkheim basic form of society = Solidarity-based society
Basic classification of societies = Methods of production and exchange
Founder of cultural-historical types doctrine = Danilevsky
Spengler’s cultural types = Apollonian, Faustian, Magical
Open society defined by = Individualism and democratic pluralism
Social knowledge characterized by = Partial identity of subject and object
Method of social philosophy → internal relations = Structural-functional method
Human material and industrial sphere = Conscious purposeful activity
Population vs resources theory by = Malthus
Civilizational approach representative = Toynbee
Stage overcoming savagery = Civilization
Source of fundamental social change = Development of productive forces
Driving force of development = Contradiction
Historical evolution of society = Sociogenesis
Montesquieu “spirit of laws” = Linear definition of law
Modern trend → self-development factor = Synergetics
End of history concept = Fukuyama
Philosophical history concept by = Voltaire
Pythagoras = Numbers
Atoms doctrine = Democritus
Tao = Law of nature, society, behavior
Ontology = Teaching about being
Subjective idealism = Space and time are forms of perception
Being definition = Something that exists
Absolute reality in Hinduism = Brahman
Taoism principle = Naturalness and harmony
“Thought and being are one” = Parmenides
Ahimsa means = Do no harm
Being is eternal, united = Parmenides
Everything flows = Heraclitus
Cannot enter same river twice = Relativism (Heraclitus idea)
Motion unthinkable = Zeno of Elea
Zeno paradox = Impossibility of motion
Any change means = Motion
Fatalism = Denial of freedom
Immanence = Innate idea
Stoicism = Enduring the unchangeable
Anaximander = Arche of things
Plato = Two worlds (ideas and phenomena)
Forms (ideas) creator = Plato
Relativist = Protagoras
Nirvana = Absolute calm
Samkhya dual principles = Prakriti and Purusha
Schopenhauer = World as Will and Representation
Platonic idea = Immaterial essence
Pluralism = Many independent principles
Kant → impossible to know thing-in-itself = Kant
Moral nihilism = No moral truths
Fairness = Equal treatment without bias
Moral skepticism = No moral knowledge
Kant categorical imperative = Treat humanity as an end
“Starry sky above me…” = Kant
“Educating the mind without the heart…” = Aristotle
Revaluation of values = Nietzsche
Spinoza’s path to freedom = Knowledge (Ethics)
Highest level of value consciousness = Ideals
Nietzsche values = Must be created by humans
Daoism principle Wu Wei = Non-action
First philosopher moral as independent sphere = Kant
Protestant ethic → capitalism = Weber
Jainism main ethic = Ahimsa
Voltaire quote about defending speech = Voltaire
Citizens of the world = Cynics
Denial of fate, humans free = Confucians
Montesquieu developed law theory of = Locke
Spinoza: world governed by = Absolute necessity
Machiavelli core idea = Politics for politics
Locke natural rights exclude = Right to vote
Montesquieu separation of powers = Basis of rule of law
Rousseau opening line = Man is born free but in chains
Everything predestined = Fatalism
Eudaemonism meaning of life = Freedom from suffering
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