MLK Jr. & J.S. Mill
An "I-it" relation for an "I-thou" relation
What sort of relation to humans is substituted in demeaning practices such as segregation?
"Nasty, brutish and short"
How does Hobbes characterize life in the state of nature?
I exist
What is the first thing that Descartes discovers he can know with certainty in the Meditations?
Innate ideas
What does Locke deny the existence of?
The view that all knowledge is based on sensation
What is empiricism?
The divine law
What does human law aim to embody, according to Martin Luther King, Jr?
Forming a covenant
How, according to Hobbes, do we exit the state of nature?
Mystical experience of God
What is the only way Al-Ghazali eventually concludes that we can have knowledge?
A tabula rasa, or "blank slate?
How does Locke describe the mind at birth?
The view that all knowledge is based on reason
What is rationalism?
A willingness to accept the penalty
What does Martin Luther King, Jr. take to be a condition of ethical lawbreaking?
Private ownership of land
What, according to Rousseau, was the first step in the self-enslavement of mankind?
The Evil Demon
What thought experiment does Descartes employ in order to discover what we can know for certain?
It is impossible for something to be and not to be at the same time
Give an example of a supposedly innate idea
Idealism vs. Physicalism
What is the view that only mind exists, versus the view that matter exists?
Abstract right
What notion does John Stuart Mill reject in favor of utilitarianism?
The sovereign
Who is the single person who "carries" the commonwealth, according to Hobbes?
A thinking thing, or a mind
What, according to Descartes, is he/are you?
The mind of God
What explains the existence of things when we are not perceiving them, according to Berkeley?
Infallibilism
What is the view that knowledge requires certainty/is incompatible with doubt/that what we know cannot be incorrect?
What directly concerns only oneself
What, in general, belongs to the proper domain of liberty (that is, those freedoms which must be protected at all costs)?
Commonwealth by acquisition
God is a perfect idea, and a perfect idea can only have been implanted in me by a perfect being
How does Descartes argue for the existence of God?
By abstraction
How, according to the empiricists, do we know general facts on the basis of experience?
The view that some knowledge is infallible, and all other knowledge can be inferred from it
What is foundationalism?