philosophy mid-term
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| What is philosophy? Where does the term come from? | show 🗑
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| show | Philosophy deals with the first principles of knowledge. While other academic disciplines deal with the question of what, for example what is gravity. Philosophy deals with the question of why, so we would ask why is gravity.
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| show | A period of history that runs from the 6th century b.c to approximately the 3rd century a.d
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| show | A mythical account. A myth is a story that has a purpose of explaining the unexplainable.
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| show | A rational account. Has the use of argument
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| show | opinions or belief, uncertain
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| show | Knowledge and is certain, follows predict of certainty.
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| show | The art of persuasion.
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| show | The concern with content rather than appeal.
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| show | Rhetoric vs dialect, Doxa vs Episteme, Mythos vs logos. One is inadequate and the other is rigorous or higher in quality. this marks the birth of the western intellectual tradition.
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| show | Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates and Plate are from Athens and Aristotle is from Stagira.
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| show | A series of declarative statements that leads to a conclusion.
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| show | The principle of non-contradiction. contradictions are opposite claims of the world. This applies to all disciplines because a contradiction is a logical absurdity and all disciplines have to follow that rule.
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| show | The study of ultimate or fundamental questions regarding human existence. this only applies to humans.
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| Are the sciences concerned with ultimacy? Explain. | show 🗑
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| show | something we value for its own sake
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| show | Something we value as a means to obtain something else.
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| Are the only intrinsic value and pleasure the same? | show 🗑
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| show | No, because happiness is the highest good and you can only obtain happiness by doing things that are good.
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| show | humans aim at what we perceive as good, we miss the target or sometimes don't know where the target is at. Humans have a perception problem.
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| What is the central question of the Euthyphro? | show 🗑
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| show | piety is treating everyone the same, which means applying the same moral standards to everyone.
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| What is Socrates’ objections to both those responses? | show 🗑
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| What is divine command theory? | show 🗑
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| show | The problem is that it's tyrannical which is saying that authority is equal to correctness.
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| What are the three charges in the “Apology”? | show 🗑
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| How does Socrates answer the charges? Explain in detail | show 🗑
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| What does he say about the fear of death? | show 🗑
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| What does he mean by an “examined life”? | show 🗑
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| show | Meletus
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| show | Meletus is wrong because good people don't need laws, good people want to do good things they are not willing to do good.
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| show | Immortality of the soul, existence of God, and the question of human freedom.
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| What is a definition of the word “God”? | show 🗑
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| What attributes does God have in most major theistic traditions? | show 🗑
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| show | The existence of evil is the problem.
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| What is devotional atheism? | show 🗑
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| What is deism? | show 🗑
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| show | there is a logical contribution between God's attributes and the existence of evil.
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| show | Moral evil and natural evil
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| show | There is evil because there is no God.
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| show | the cosmological argument, the design argument, and the argument from religious experience.
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| Where does the word “Apology” come from? | show 🗑
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| Branches of philosophy | show 🗑
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