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philosophy unit II

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"Measure of a man" claims there are 3 conditions   Consciousness, Intelligence, Sentient  
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What makes a human alive in "Measure of a man"   Self awareness  
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Suffering and Spinoza   his structured childhood led to rebellion and breaking free to experience the world  
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Suffering and Siddhartha   Four Noble Truths  
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Suffering and Conclusions drawn   Suffering brings meaning to life  
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Spinoza and God   God is everything, but is not a person, yet a part of the world  
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Sub specie aeternitatis   God's perspective- taking this perspective will lessen suffering  
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how do we cause our suffering   living through our ego instead of living in harmony with the bigger picture  
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Siddhartha and liberation from wheel   only available in human world, escape=Nirvana reached  
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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  
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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  
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Siddhartha's path to nirvana   Starved himself for 6 years to reach Nirvana ( didnt work), sat under a tree for 49 instead  
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Hobbes basic idea   no knowing of true good true evil. we all just live in a system of life with changing energy  
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State of nature   humans will compete for survival  
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all vs all   everyone will compete for resources  
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how to avoid horrible state of nature   create leviathan  
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leviathan   give in to the government to protect us from each other  
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eightfold path   middle path to Nirvana  
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Hobbes views on human nature   selfish and evil  
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Rosseau Basic Idea   believed man is good at the core, civilization corrupts man  
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Noble Savage   lives in societal solidarity that only cares for their immediate needs  
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Rosseau thought process   opposite of hobbes, nature has abundance  
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Homopuppy is who's thought process   Rosseau  
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Stoicism   Zeno  
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stocism basic idea   enduring hardship without complaining. transforms negative emotions to sense of perspective  
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stoics believe   all emotions come from within and our relations with others are more important than anything else  
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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)  
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romantic relationships are   fundamentally irrational  
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hegel   believed in historical progress. friction between the impact of the status quo (thesis) and the contradictions of the status quo (antithesis).  
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Dialecticism   places someone as part of the status quo or against it, no in between, progess is constant  
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hegel and the end of history   when all antithesises are solved  
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people are shaped   rather by what they oppose than by what they believe  
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Kierkegaard   biggest critic of hegel, we only exist if we act freely  
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Kierkegaard felt freedom   neither under his strict fathers ruling or in rebellion  
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“The Father of Existentialism”   Kierkegaard  
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