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The epistemic theory that knowledge comes primarily from sensory experience.
What is Empiricism?
What is Social Darwinism?
This social, political, and economic philosophy, developed by Karl Marx, examines the effect of capitalism on labor, productivity, and economic development and argues for a worker revolution to overturn capitalism.
What is Marxism?
What is psychoanalysis?
The branch of philosophy that deal with moral principles.
What is ethics?
What is Socialism?
Aptly named; the Copernican Revolution, Nicolaus Copernicus presented this astronomical model. Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei would present supporting observations for this model.
What is Heliocentrism?
The enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom.
What is authoritarianism?
The political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.
What is Liberalism?
Translated as "scraped tablet" or "clean slate", this epistemic theory, presented by John Locke, proposes that the state of human mind is has no knowledge prior to experience.
What is tabula rasa?
The political philosophy that seeks to promote and preserve traditional social institutions.
What is Conservatism?
What is Capitalism?
What is Rationalism?
The political philosophy that exalts a nation or predominant race above the individual and that stands for centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader.
What is Fascism?
The three components of Hegel's dialectical scheme the emphasized the progress of history.
A system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.
What is totalitarianism?
The philosophical theory that emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. That an individual chooses an essence as opposed to bring born predisposed with one.
The moral/ethical theory that attributes morality of an action is determined by its usefulness to people
What is act utilitarianism?
The Italian art movement of the early 20th century, artists aimed to capture in art the dynamism and energy of the modern world.
What is Futurism?
This cultural movement that developed after WWI, manifested primarily in art as a disdain for rationalism and literary realism. That the rational mind repressed the power of imagination, weighing it down with convention.
What is surrealism?
What is Mercantilism?
The literary, artistic, and philosophical movement in the 18th century. It is characterized as a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions.
What is romanticism?
The political theory that advocates for the creation of a classless society in which the major means of production are owned and controlled by the public.
A proposition the predicate of which is not logically or analytically contained in the subject. (e.g. all triangles have three sides, all bachelors are males)
What is synthetic a priori proposition?
The moral/ethical theory that attributes morality of an action is when conformity to a certain rule leads to the greatest good.
What is rule utilitarianism?