Who Said This?
How to Live
What is Real
How do we Know?
Other Stuff
100
Cogito ergo sum
Who is Descartes?
100
This philosophy focuses on creating the capacity to take pleasure in simple things, while those around you chase pleasure in more things
What is Epicureanism or Hedonism?
100
Plato used this story to demonstrate how most people do not understand what is real.
What is the Allegory of the Cave?
100
Branch of philosophy focused on how we know what we know
What is Epistemology?
100
The school of philosophy that emphasizes the existence of the human being, the lack of meaning and purpose in life, and the solitude of human existence.
What is Existentialism?
200
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Who is Socrates?
200
The ethical belief that we should maximize good for the greatest number of people.
What is utilitarianism?
200
The branch of philosophy that is concerned with establishing what is real.
What is Metaphysics?
200
The idea that knowledge can exist without the use of senses or experience.
What is Rationalism?
200
Existentialism is the study of this.
What is existence or being?
300
“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.”
Who is J.S. Mills?
300
The school of philosophy that believes it not outside forces that make us feel something; it is what we tell ourselves that create our feelings. A job, school, or the weather are not inherently stressful—it’s your thoughts that are stressing you out.
What is Stoicism?
300
The theory that human behavior and actions are wholly determined by external factors, and therefore humans do not have genuine free will or ethical accountability.
What is Hard Determinism?
300
"I think therefore I am" supports this branch of Epistemology.
What is Rationalism?
300
When two independent clauses are run together (or "fused") without an appropriate conjunction or mark of punctuation between them
What is run-on sentence (or fused).
400
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
Who is Kant?
400
The moral law that holds there are two questions that we must ask ourselves whenever we decide to act: (i) Can I rationally will that everyone act as I propose to act? (ii) Does my action respect the goals of human beings rather than merely using them for my own purposes?
What is the Categorical Imperative?
400
The theory that human behavior and actions are wholly determined by causal events, but human free will does exist when defined as the capacity to act according to one's nature (which is shaped by external factors such as heredity, society and upbringing).
What is Soft Determinism
400
According to this philosopher, ideas and objects have both primary and secondary qualities that are perceivable by the senses.
Who is John Locke?
400
This quarterback holds the record for most career touchdown passes.
Who is Peyton Manning?
500
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Who is Jean-Paul Sartre?
500
This school of philosophy believes in determinism; therefore, regards emotional reactions to setbacks as illogical.
What is Stoicism?
500
This is what the escaped prisoner in Plato's Cave represents.
What is a person who pursues wisdom, a philosopher, or Socrates?
500
This quote is an example of which philosophy? "Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? .... To this I answer in one word, from experience"
What is Empiricism?
500
This philosopher believed that behind morality there was nothing but the naked will-to-power.
Who is Nietzsche?
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