Philosophy1.txt

Indian woman in Guatemala; the new baby belongs to the community not just the parents.

Republicans against Science, Post Dispatch article, Gilleo wrote in about how science and religion are not incompatiable

Monk that was great friends with MLK Jr.

Study of Wisdom

branch of philosophy that investigates what is real

Branch of philosophy dealing with the study of knowledge, what it is, and how we acquire it.

Branch of philosophy dealing with study of values

view that truth has no objective standard and may vary from individual to individual, from group to group and from time to time

Greek Philosopher that never wrote anything down

The method of dialect, reported in Plato�s dialogues

The method of questioning used by Socrates in pursuit to the truth

Socrates student that wrote down all of what Socrates said in the form of dialogues. He then was a great philosopher himself and went on to teach Aristotle.

in metaphysics (�what is real�) the belief that the most real entities are ideas and other immaterial entities

in ontology the belief that reality is essentially matter

for Aristotle, life lived in accordance with the highest human capacity, reason.

Ethical theory that uses as a moral standard what a virtuous person would do, rather than consequences or obligations; the primary question is , what kind of person should I be?

moderate action between undesirable extremes; used by Aristotle to describe an ethical ideal

Founder of Buddhism

the enlightened one, Siddhartha Gautama

manner of life, practices, or principles of an ascetic; extreme abstinence

• 1. Right to Belief: to believe in the Four Noble Truths
• 2. Right Intention: overcoming desires.
• 3. Right Speech: to tell the truth to speak kindly and gently; talk only when necessary.
• 4. Right Conduct: 5 precepts- 1, do not kill 2, do not steal 3, do not lie 4, do not be unchaste 5, do not drink intoxicating drinks.
• 5. Right Livelihood: earn one�s living righteously, legally, and peacefully. No weapons, dealing in living beings, slaughter of animals, selling harmful intoxicants
• 6. Right Effort: discriminate between wise and unwise attachments
• 7. Right Mindfulness: Concentrate task at hand
• 8. Right meditation: focus, calm, or empty the mind.

Plato�s theory of a three-part human nature ideally ruled by reason

A pre-Socratic philosopher who believed that arche was a unified whole or any philosopher who believes reality its one.

A pre-Socratic philosopher who believed that arche was multiple or any philosopher who believes reality is plural.

A teacher of practical applications for philosophy in early Greece.

prinicple or basic stuff from which everything derives

a Milesian mathematician predicted an eclipse of the Sun would occur at thhat exact moment and it did.

Student of Thales who learned then developed an original idea; Theory was that water was the arche. Infinite or boundless

Found Anaximander's idea too vague but believed that the arche was air not water.

Believed that math made up the arche.

was a nobleman from Ephesus in what was then Asia Minor now is Turkey.

Was a prince who was offered the kingship in Sicily but declined it. He wrote songs and practiced rhetoric. He saw himself as a prohphet and recalled that he brought the dead to life.

Devoted his life to science and travel wrote more than 60 books and none survived.

First Athenian philosopher who was a persian but then defected and settled in Athens.

the view that there are just two mutually irreducible substances monism and pluralism.

Student of Plato but did not necessarily agree with Plato.

• 1. Cause means the material from which something is made
• 2. the form or pattern according to which something is made
• 3. that from which a change begins or ceases.
• 4. the end or that for which a thing exists.

person who has attained englightenment.

coming to existence

absolute englightenment no pain, worry and the external world

creator of Taoism; chinese philosopher

virtue of which all things happen or exist

chinese dynasty

Dark, negative, and feminine

one positive, bright and masculine.

philosopical book in verse supposedly written by Lao-Tzu

fundamental worked on Taoism

Author of souls of black folks.