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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