Review

Jan 24, 2009 20:20



Philo Review
TERMS

Philosophical question/ empirical question

Metaphysics

Ethics

Epistemology

Stoics

Natural philosophy

Agnostics/skeptics

Superfluity argument

Rationalism

Nihilism

Existentialism

Determinism (universal causality)

Libertarianism

Intuitionism

Numinous experience

Hedonism

Materialism

Idealism

Dualism

Realism

Anti-realism

Skepticism

Theism

Five minute Hypothesis

Altruism

Egoism

Atheism

Syllogism

Valid argument

Sound Argument

Theodicy

Principal of Belief Conservation

Principal of Credulity

SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Social justice as merit

Distribution Justice, -egalitarianism

Social contract (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau - gen. Will)

Marx-Socialism

Rawls

ETHICS
Various Schools of Ethics and Their Proponents

Divine command

Absolutism/relativism

Natural Law

Utilitarianism (act, rule)

Kantian Ethics

Kohlberg’s stages

Egoism

Hedonism

Buddhism

Virtue ethics

Consequentialism

Non- Consequentialism

REALLY BIG NAMES!

Socrates

Plato

Aristotle

Sartre

Descartes

Schopenhawer

St. Thomas Aquinas

Augustine

Anselm

Kant

Bentham

Darwin

Hobbes

Locke

Pascal

Hegel

Marx

Fukuyama

Spender

Searle

Rousseau

Rawls

Locke

Gandhi/King
 FOUNDATIONS

Plato’s cave allegory

Rationalism - Socrates

Socratic irony - method

Plato cave - forms -philosopher king

Maslow’s implications

Aristotle - compare to Plato

SOME KEY PHILOSOPHY DEBATES

Argument for and against god’s existence

Are we really free?

Are we selfish or selfless?

Materialism vs Dualism

Plato Vs Aristotle

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