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Pyrrhonism
________- Pyrro: All judgments of good and evil are relative to the one judging.
Logic
________: The organized body of knowledge that evaluates arguments.
Perceiver
________ relativity theory- Leibnitz: The reasoning behind good and evil is beyond human understanding, and can only be fully understood by a higher being.
Logical Positivism
________- Comte: Only that which can be empirically verified is valuable.
Metaphysics
________:: Examines the nature of being.
Fallacy
________: Faults that weaken arguments.
Materialism
________- Hobbes: Everything that exists is due to physical matter.
Virtue Ethics Golden Mean
________- Aristotle: The ideal form of moral behaviour between two extremes.
Ethical Egoism
________- Rand: This theory encourages people to pursue their own self- interest.
Pluralism
________- Anaxagoras: Reality is composed of more than two things.
Determinism
________-Laplace: Everything that occurs is caused by preceding causes or events.
Antirealism
________- Spender: All that is real is formed by our own perceptions, beliefs and language.
Dualism
________- Plato: Reality consists of two fundamentally different things, mind and matter.
Stoicism
________- Zeno: Humans must conform themselves to the ways of the universe.
Rhetoric
________:: Language used intentionally to influence others beliefs, attitudes and behaviours.
Agent Intellect
________- Al- Farabi: The self is comprised of the human mind, which is guided by a higher being.
Libertarianism
________- Sartre: People have the free will to do whatever they please.
Utilitarianism
________- Mill: The best action is that which provides the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.
Pragmatism
________- James: Truth is that which serves a practical purpose.
Metaethics
________: The attempt to answer fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of ethics.
Compatibilism
________- Hobbes: You are free as long as you are not physically restrained from making your own choices.
Categorical Imperative
________- Kant: Humans have universal moral duties of conduct.
Social Animal
Self as a(n) ________- Taylor: We are who we are in relation to other people.
Objective Idealism
________- Berkley: The mind of god gives everything its existence.
Bundle of perceptions
________- Hume: The self is a collection of characteristics that are constantly changing.
Subjective Idealism
________- Vasubandhu: Everything is created by ones own mind.This is significant to philosophy as it examines the origins of reality /being.
Principle of Sufficient Reason
________- Leibniz: Everything must have a cause or reason.
Cartesian Self
________- Descartes: Thinking and being self- aware comprises the self.
Agent Causation
________- O'Connor: Free will is the cause of all events and human behaviour.
Metaphysics
Examines the nature of being
Fallacy
Faults that weaken arguments
Rhetoric
Language used intentionally to influence others beliefs, attitudes and behaviours
Logic
The organized body of knowledge that evaluates arguments
Ockham's Razor
States that we should avoid multiplying entities beyong necessity
Metaethics
The attempt to answer fundamental philosophical questions about the nature of ethics
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