PHILOSOPHY

Descartes

Father of modern philosophy, known for his approach of starting fresh and building knowledge through rationality and science.

Cogito Ergo Sum

Descartes' famous quote meaning "I think; therefore I am," emphasizing the connection between thinking and existence.

Anthropocentrism

The belief that humans are the central focus and source of understanding in the world and humanity.

Absolute Freedom

The concept that individuals have the freedom to make choices and are solely responsible for the consequences of those choices.

Limited Freedom

The idea that freedom is constrained by laws, policies, and societal conditions, leading to limitations on actions and decisions.

Intersubjectivity

The understanding of freedom as not only what one can do, but also what one ought to do for the self, others, and society.

Society

A large grouping of individuals who share the same geographical territory, culture, and social structure, and are expected to abide by certain laws.

Inevitability of Death

Philosophical perspectives on death, including Heidegger's exploration of being-toward-death and Troisfontaines' emphasis on the importance of relationships in the face of mortality.

Darwin

He is the philosopher who conceptualized the idea of natural selection.

Darwin

He said that it is only human beings are the only ones capable to show sympathy and concerns for others and are vested with intelligence to make a just and moral world.

Hobbes

Who said that man by nature is evil/selfish.

Anthropocentric

What is the focus of the Philosophy of the Human person in the modern period?

Methodic Doubt

What process did Rene Descartes do to determine that we are existing?

Father of Communism

It is the title given to Marx.

the Other

For Habermas, what hinders subjects from communicating to reach consensus?

Alienation

For Karl Marx, what hinders our freedom?

Revolution

For Karl Marx, the conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat can be stopped through

Marxism

Karl Marx’s theories about society, economics, and politics are understood as

Communism

For Karl Marx, this is the best form of government.

Capitalism

According to Karl Marx, this promotes the most intense form of ‘alienation’.

Selfish

Marx believed that it is the nature of human beings to be?

homo faber

For Karl Marx, is a (?) than mere homo sapiens.

Alienation

This happens if the work a person performs is not the expression of a natural creative need but is motivated by the necessity of fulfilling other’s needs.

Commodification

This is the transformation of goods, services, ideas and people into commodities.

Levinas

He defines man as the being who faces an “other” and constructs a world from the dual acts of distancing and relating.

Buber

Who said that we exist by the way we engage in dialogue with each other, with the world, and with God?

Camus

Who said that the Absurd is the product of a collision or confrontation between our human desire for order, meaning, and purpose in life and the blank, indifferent “silence of the universe”?

Camus

Who considers the absurd hero as the ideal man?

Heidegger

Who said that Dasein is individualized and becomes self-aware?

Heidegger

The care structure consists of our Dasein with a common facticity that we are founded by Throwness ending up with temporality of The Nothingness. Whose philosophy is this?

Buber

Who is the philosopher who stated that if we take objectivity away from our lives, we stop thinking I am a body only and start thinking I am a being among beings?

Marcel

Who said that existence is nothing more than this journey?

Nietzsche

Who said that we should embrace envy and use it as a motivation to do better in life to achieve whatever we are envious about?

Camus

Who claims that alcohol deludes us from the pain of life?

Sartre

Who said that man is characterized by an existence that precedes its essence?

Sartre

Who said that we are born without a purpose and we are condemned to be free and to choose our own purpose in life?

Levinas

He described relationship of human beings as a Subject - Subject relationship, where both beings treat each other as equals and not means to an end. Who is this philosopher?

Marcel

According to him, man transcends himself through participation- transcendence unfolds through creative fidelity. Who is this philosopher?

Descartes

Who coined the line “cogito ergo sum”

individual judgements

According to Hobbes, human beings are prone to disaster when we are left to interact according only to our (?)

I-thou

According to Buber, this kind of relationship acknowledges a living relationship with the other.

Levinas

Who defined man as the being who faces an “other” and constructs a world from the dual acts of distancing and relating?

Buber

Who said that we exist by the way we engage in dialogue with each other, with the world, and with God?

Camus

Who said that the Absurd is the product of a collision or confrontation between our human desire for order, meaning, and purpose in life and the blank, indifferent “silence of the universe?”

Camus

Who considers the absurd man as the ideal man?

Heidegger

Who said that Dasein is individualized and becomes self-aware?

Heidegger

The care structure consists of our Dasein with a common facticity that we are founded by Throwness ending up with temporality of The Nothingness. Whose philosophy is this?

Marcel

He is the philosopher who stated that if we take objectivity away from our lives, we stop thinking I am a body only and start thinking I am a being among beings?

Marcel

Who said that existence is nothing more than this journey?

Nietzsche

Who said that we should embrace envy and use it as a motivation to do better in life to achieve whatever we are envious about?

Sartre

Who said that we are born without a purpose and we are condemned to be free and to choose our own purpose in life?

Levinas

He described relationship of human beings as a Subject - Subject relationship, where both beings treat each other as equals and not means to an end. Who is this philosopher?

Levinas

According to him, man transcends himself through relationship- transcendence does not come from within but unfolds between individuals. Who is this philosopher?

Camus

For him, the absurd is not in man nor in the world, but in their presence together... it is the only bond uniting them. Who said this?

Heidegger

The acceptance of death is the realization of having an authentic existence. Who said this?

Heidegger

The acceptance of death causes us to do things knowing our own possibilities because this is the only life we have- meaningful life. Whose philosophy is this?

Kierkegaard

The concept of man according to this philosopher has made the infinite leap of faith and regained the finite, he is able fully to delight in the finite pleasures of this world. Who is the philosopher?

Kierkegaard

For him, the relationship with God is exclusively personal. Who is this philosopher?

Dasein

What is Heidegger’s concept of man?

Knight of Faith

What is Kierkegaard’s concept of man?

Ubermensch

What is Nietzsche’s concept of man?

Absurd man

What is Camus’ concept of man?

Sartre

Who said that man is characterized by an existence that precedes its essence?

Homo Viator

Marcel speaks of a man who finds his real meaning in a message coming from the “other” through the metaphor of a journey, who is this man?

Das man

What does Heidegger call the inauthentic man man?

I-thou

According to Buber, this kind of relationship acknowledges a relationship with the other?

Philosophy of Heidegger

The structure which consists of our Dasein with a common facticity that we are founded by Throwness ending up with temporality of The Nothingness

Philosophy of Sartre

Man is characterized by an existence that precedes its essence

Gender roles are socially constructed and learned

What does Simone de Beauvoir mean by the famous assertion “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman“

Levinas’ philosophy in our current times

For others, in spite of myself, from my self

Philosophy of Nietzsche

We should embrace envy and use it as a motivation to do better in life to achieve whatever we are envious of

Freedom is a Responsibility

Simone de Beauvoir’s contribution to the existentialist understanding of freedom

Philosophy of Habermas

It is through communicative action that we reach common understanding about our world

Philosophy of Levinas

The relationship of human beings as a Subject-Subject Relationship where both beings treat each other as equals and not means to an end

Nietzsche’s philosophy in our current times

Freedom is the will to be responsible for myself

It restricts the foundation for authentic existence

The significance of personal responsibility in shaping one’s existence according to Simone Beauvoir