Vocabulary
Aristotle and Plato
Bentham and Mill
Feminist Epistemology
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100
Genuine pleasures include friendship and enjoying one's independence. One is devoted to happiness and community.
What is Epicureanism?
100
Aristocracy, Timocracy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Tyranny.
What is Plato's hierarchy of governments?
100
Has conclusions which are ___ without being completely ___.
What is a necessary and sufficient ethical argument?
100
These philosophers were social activist for women's rights.
What is Addams, Mill, Wollstonecraft?
100
This often exceeds our expectations, family and moving out to the public, reason, and a way to monitor actions.
What is Noddings and our caring for others?
200
This is abstract from the sensual, the faculty on which we base rationality, logical, and how we prove truth.
What is reason in the Modern Era of Western Culture?
200
Appetitive, spirited, and rational all relate to a job in the polis.
What is Plato's three parts of the soul?
200
There is an ethical reason to punish someone for this because they may be harming others.
What is self harm?
200
This breeches the divide between reason and desire, breaks the axiology, denies pure reason as the mark of intelligence or humanity, and includes sympathetic understanding and collective reasoning.
What is Feminist Epistemology?
200
Gilligan finds that men have a fear of ___ and women have a fear of ___.
What is attachment and abandonment.
300
An approach to philosophical thinking involving people setting goals for themselves.
What is teleology?
300
One was a deductive and abstract thinker and emphasized education, while the other was an inductive and logical thinker and emphasized practical experience.
What is Plato and Aristotle?
300
This principle states that the only purpose for which power can legitimately be exercised by society over individuals is to prevent harm.
What is Mill's Harm Principle?
300
According the Addams, when women are educated they lose ____.
What is an intuitive sense of community and their trust in their intuitive senses?
300
This was a metaphor that explored the relationship between systems of social control and people in disciplinary situations, the power of knowledge, centralized and individual power, and the knowledge gained from observation.
What is the panopticon?
400
You act with neither excess nor deficiency.
What is Doctrine of the Mean?
400
Moral virtue is a rational person's aim in life and practical wisdom is the means to reach that aim.
What is Aristotle?
400
we must consider _____ when considering whether harm to others is relevant for a decision of punishment.
What is preventing future or further harm?
400
The only way to approach human problem and a matter of realizing the importance of the pattern of human relationships.
What is sympathetic knowledge?
400
Self reflect by examining one's feelings and actions and to consult a friend or mentor.
What is Foucault's taking possession of oneself?
500
Emphasis on universalizability, respect, autonomy.
What is Categorical Imperative?
500
He is adverse to any kind of ethical egoism because morality is good in itself and we function best as reasonable persons who are masters of their own fate.
What is Plato?
500
Bentham quantifies interpersonal utility in terms of happiness and Mill adds qualitative aspects when weighing utility.
What is the difference between Bentham's Hedonic Calculus and Mill's Utilitarian philosophy?
500
Often uses testimonies as evidence.
What is Feminist Philosophy?
500
What is the three tools Foucault uses? Explain each one.
Hermeneutics is based on interpretation of meaningful symbols in popular culture or art or philosophy. Disclosure is based on the truth of hidden histories. Philology is based on the translation and reinterpretation of language.
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