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