HONR101 Final Exam

Surah

Chapter - Collection of Ayas, goal is to guide reader towards divine

Aya

Verse, Translates as sign, also the word to describe “everything”

Everything is a sign of something (God)

Mercy

Core of the Islamic religion

Prostration

deep submission to Allah

has a physical component of completely contacting the ground, abandoning all pride and showing complete humility

Samkyah

non-theistic, dualistic, concerned with classifying the universe and nature

Orthodox schools of Indian Philosophy

Hindu” schools, consider the Vedas to be source of knowledge

Heterodox schools of Indian Philosophy

non-Hindu, reject Vedas as source of knowledge

Yoga

like Samkhya but practice-oriented, personal God

Vidahnta

monistic, impersonal God, concerned with rituals

Buddhism

non-self, non-dualistic

Moksha

Liberation from samsara

Samsara

the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound

Ksatriya

elite warrior caste, to fight

Dharma

duty/law

Shlokas

verses

Vyasa

the compiler

Kuladharma

timeless laws of the family

adharma

choas/lawlessness

Brahman

The highest reality, binding unity behind all diversity

Atman

self or soul, the real, eternal, unchanging core of the human individual,

Svadharma

caste duty, your specific dharma in society

Samkya-yoga

yoga of action/work

Jnana-yoga

yoga of knowledge/wisdom

Bhakti-yoga

yoga of devotion

Buddi

insight

Prakrti

nature

Maya

veil of illusion

Elenchus

a conversation focusing on breaking belief systems, it can feel uncomfortable

Aporia

sense of perplexity, puzzle, or silence when you cannot figure out which direction to go. Elenchus often leads the interlocutor here

Dialectic

other side of elenchus, conversation in which you go back and forth trying to build truth

Eidos

idea/form. The standard most real and unchanging version of a thing. A proper definition is the eidos, not an example.

Philos

friend

Echthros

enemy

Apologia

defense speech

Sophists

teachers of virtue

Daimonia

voices in socrates head

gadfly metaphor

socrates was meant to annoy athens

oracle at delphi

socrates was told he was the wisest and so he sought out to test that

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the young woman, shulamite

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daughters of jerusalem, chorus

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the shulamite’s lover, young man

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young woman’s brothers

wasf

Arabic style of love poetry that figuratively describes the beloved’s body parts, usually beginning at the head and working its way down

marturia

bear witness

christomimesis

Imitate Christ: first by living, then by dying.

From Thecla to Perpetua

epithumia

yearning, longing, passion, sxual desire, lust

martus

witness

anchorite

someone who withdraws entirely from society to focus on spirituality, prayer, and solitude

cyclicism

• Fanfare

• Provides structure and repetition to the beginning and end of piece

pedal point

• Sustained notes that bring harmony

strophic

• Melodic lines and rhythmic freedom mimics the characteristics of gregorian chant

syncopation

Where the rhythm is given emphasis such that it does not fall on the main pulse of the music

asymmetrical rhythm

• The meter floats back and forth between recurring pulses of two and three