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1. What is the core of S.H. Philosophy? Marxist Philosophy?
Naturalism, Matter is all that can be know
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2. How is knowledge acquired in each philosophy?
- S.H.:science
- Marx:science
- C.H.:within each person
- Post:local narratives
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3. S.H. rejects what? Why?
Supernatural is rejected because it does not pass the tes of scientific method
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4. What are the implications of S.H. Philosophy?
- The purpose of man is to get as far as possible on his own before death, if the mind is just a scientific
- machine;there is no real value to people, science becomes a god in which all faith must lie, there is little
- hope for each one's future
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5. Know the Marxist Dialectic.
life is constantly evolviong and changing in an upward spiral of evolution through clashes of opposing forces
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6. Know the mind-body problem and how each philosophy addresses it.
- S.H.:the mind is seeen as simply a manifestation of the brain
- the mind is just the result of "2 billion years of evolution"
- the mind dies with the body, resulting in complete mortality
- Marx:the mind is seeen as simply a manifestation of the brain
- reflect
- this is monism
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7. Cosmic Humanist Philosophy is know as?
non-naturalism
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8. Where does truth lie for the C.H., and how do they know truth?
within each person
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9. What is matter for different philosophies?
- Secular:material world is all that exists
- Marxist:matter is eternal, infinite, uncreated, and indestructible
- Humanism:mater is a manisfestation of the spirit
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10. Know how science and scientific method are a part of certain philosophies.
- For Humanist, supernatural is rejected because it does not pass the test of scientific method
- For Marxism, knowledge is that which has been tested and investigated by science
- For Humanists, everything is supernatural
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11. Identify all the statements.
- C.H.:"When we consistently suppress and distrust our intuitive knowingness, looking instead for external
- authority, validation and approval from others, we give our personal power away."-Shakti Gawain
- S.H.:The mind is just the result of "2 billion years of evolution"
- Post-mod:anti-realism,the belief that reality is subjectively constructed by human thought
- Marxist:life is constantly evolviong and changing in an upward spiral of evolution through clashes of opposing forces
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12. Be able to define ethics and what it seeks to determine.
a system of moral principles, what is right or wrong
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13. Be able to explain the Epistemological Dilemma.
how we know what we know, theory of knowledge
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17. Define philosophy.
the study of the processes of governing thought and conduct
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18. Islam and Christian are both what? ...and share what?
- they are both theistic and share some biblical/ot roots, both affirm the supernatural and spiritual, both use
- faith and reason to support their beliefs
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19. What/who influenced Islamic Philosophy
Greek
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20. What is truth in post-modernism?
subjective truth
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21. Descrive post-modern view on literature and methodology.
postmodernists are concerned with the language of written texts and use the methodology of deconstruction
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