People
Greek philosopher who said that if there are not absolutes, individual things are meaningless.
Plato
The old, optimistic way of thinking believed truth/meaning could be found through ______.
reason
Modern Scientists believed that ______ & _____ were outside the world of cause and effect.
Haeckel said, "Matter and energy are _________."
eternal
All behavior is caused by stimuli in the environment.
determinism
He popularized the idea of "survival of the fittest."
Darwin
Modern science believed in the uniformity of natural causes in a __________ system.
open
__________ is the combination of thesis and antithesis to form "new truth."
Pasteur's discoveries nullified the idea that life cannot come from _________.
non-life
_____________ was the hero of the Enlightenment; _____________ became the hero of Romanticism.
reason emotion
Who promoted the idea of taking a "leap of faith" to find meaning?
Kierkegaard
pessimism
is right
The belief that primitive man is best because he has not been influenced by society.
noble savage
topic considered off-limits or banned
taboo
The Catholic church combined the beliefs of ________ with the Bible.
Aristotle
observation/experimentation
According to Bacon, in what 2 ways did man fall?
from innocence and from nature
Rome (Greece) and Israel
The belief that ethics depends on people and situations.
relativism
Einstein
Which one of the following was not a modern scientist: Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Kepler, Darwin, Pascal.
Darwin
Rousseau's belief about education
The best education is no education.
An example of social Darwinism
Nazis eliminating a race, racism, genetic engineering
branch of philosophy that deals with how we can know
epistemology