Philosophy, Modern Dance, Festivals, and Empowerment Technologies Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the study notes covering Philosophy of the Human Person, Modern Dance, Philippine Festivals, and Empowerment Technologies.

Holistic Thinking

A perspective that looks at the big picture and integrates all aspects of a situation before drawing a conclusion.

Partial Perspective

A perspective that looks only at a specific aspect or symptom of a situation without considering the broader context.

Socratic Method

A method of philosophizing that uses a series of questions and answers to stimulate critical thinking and expose contradictions.

Radical or Cartesian Doubt

A method of systemic skepticism used by René Descartes to discover undeniable truth.

Fact

A statement that can be observed, verified, and proven true by objective evidence.

Ad Hominem

A logical fallacy that involves attacking the person rather than addressing their argument or views.

Slippery Slope

A logical fallacy assuming that a small initial action will inevitably lead to a chain of extreme and negative events.

Plato's Tripartite Soul

The philosophical framework dividing the human psyche into three components: Rational, Spirited, and Appetitive.

Existentialism

A philosophical concept emphasizing that humans have absolute free will and are entirely responsible for creating their own meaning and choices.

Intersubjectivity

The shared awareness and psychological relation between distinct human persons.

I-Thou Relationship

Martin Buber's term for a genuine relationship where two individuals treat each other as distinct, valuable persons.

I-It Relationship

A relationship where one person treats another merely as an agent, object, or instrument for a transaction or order.

Empathy

The ability to share emotions and deeply understand another person's subjective experience from their perspective.

Social Contract

An agreement among individuals to sacrifice some personal freedoms in exchange for state protection and social order.

Pastoral Society

A society characterized by the domestication of animals for food and clothing, moving from place to place to find pastures.

Industrial Society

A society that relies on mechanical inventions and factories to mass-produce goods.

Golden Mean

Aristotle's concept of finding a balanced middle state between extremes of excess and deficiency.

State of Nature

Thomas Hobbes' concept of a lawless condition where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

Allegory of the Cave

Plato's metaphor describing the realization of stepping out from the darkness of ignorance into the truth of the world.

Ship of Theseus

A classic philosophical thought experiment regarding identity change when every original component of an object is replaced over time.

Aesthetic Stage

Kierkegaard's stage of existence where a person spends days seeking constant pleasure and avoiding moral duties or commitments.

Nihilism

The worldview asserting that human life has no intrinsic meaning, purpose, or objective value.

Sunyata

Keiji Nishitani's concept of emptiness, meaning all things lack a permanent independent self-nature and exist in interconnectedness.

Dasein

Martin Heidegger's concept of human existence (being-in-the-world/towards-death) where one must face mortality to live authentically.

The Eightfold Path

A disciplined path of right understanding, speech, and mindfulness followed in Buddhism to end suffering caused by cravings.

The Myth of Sisyphus

Albert Camus' philosophical analysis demonstrating how one can choose to find meaning and contentment within repetitive struggle.

Floor Patterns

The pathways or routes traveled by a dancer across the performance space.

Loïe Fuller

A modern dance pioneer who created the Serpentine Dance using flowing fabric and special lighting effects.

Abstract Dance

A choreography or dance performance that contains no narrative plot or storyline.

Motif

A recurring movement or pattern repeated throughout a dance.

Unison

A choreographic arrangement where dancers perform the exact same movement sequence at the exact same time.

Sinulog Festival

A Cebuano festival honoring the Santo Niño featuring a two steps forward and one step backward movement.

Pahiyas Festival

A harvest festival in Lucban, Quezon honoring San Isidro Labrador using leaf-shaped decorations called kiping.

Panagbenga Festival

A festival held in Baguio City that highlights flowers and floral industry floats.

Moriones Festival

A Holy Week festival in Marinduque featuring Roman soldier costumes and masks depicting the story of Longinus.

MassKara Festival

A Bacolod festival famous for colorful smiling masks created to uplift community spirits during crisis.

Assistive Media

An ICT trend that converts digital text into spoken audio to help visually impaired individuals.

Slide Sorter View

A presentation view in PowerPoint that displays slide thumbnails to easily reorder them.

PNG

An image file format supporting transparency or opacity that is commonly used for logos.

GIF

An image file format limited to 256 colors that is widely used for web graphics.

LEN Function

An Excel string function used to identify the total number of characters in a specified cell or text.

UPPER Function

An Excel string function used to convert all characters in a selected text string to uppercase.

LEFT Function

An Excel string function that extracts a specified number of characters from the leftmost side of a string.