La Mettrie
As a rejection of Descartes dualism, La Mettrie ignored the concept of soul and believed humans and animals both functioned as complex "blank"
What are machines?
Hume's Main Point
What is "we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason."
In the Leibniz hierarchy, this monad is considered the supreme being and the source of all creation.
What is God?
This famous work served as the basis for de Grouchy's work after she translated it to French.
What is Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Smith is often referred to as the Father of “blank”
What is economics?
La Mettrie believed the purpose of life is to maximize pleasure, by this belief he would be called "blank"
What is a hedonist?
Hume's ideas on being a lawyer
What is negative? ("Law is a laborious profession, requiring the drudgery of a whole life.")
According to Leibniz, this innate human ability allows individuals to perceive the world and make rational decisions based on their internal monad structures.
What is reason or rationality?
De Grouchy believed that certain sensations contributed to the development of moral sympathies
What is pain and pleasure?
As oppose to a normative or prescriptive claim about human nature, Smith is making a “blank” claim about human nature
What is descriptive?
La Mettrie said humans organism was a main differentiator from other animals, what was the other primary differentiator?
What is education?
Hume thinks *this* is the slave of passion
What is reason?
Leibniz believed these indivisible, soul-like substances are the fundamental building blocks of reality, each reflecting the entire universe from its own unique perspective.
What are Monads?
Pain is a “composite” feeling and consists of these parts
What is sensibility, imagination, and memory
Smith believed humans often make “blank” decisions
What is irrational?
According to La Mettrie, both humans and animals follow an inherent moral sense he referred to as “blank”
What is natural law?
If we haven't experienced something ourselves, we can also judge its value through *this*
Sympathy
In Leibniz’s philosophy, human progress and moral development are driven by the alignment with this universal order.
What is the pre-established harmony?
de Grouchy argues our sensitivity is better off when we focus our nature on avoiding these passions
What is vain and selfish.
To Smith, the qualities most useful to ourselves are superior reasoning as well as “blank”
What is self command?
What school of thought allows La Mettrie to claim humans and animals are fundamentally the same when purely comparing behavior and physical attributes?
What is materialism?
[True/False] For Hume, apriori knowledge allows us to make judgements about the value of things
What is False?
According to Leibniz, each monad's activity is directed by this internal striving towards its own development and perfection.
What is appetition?
De Grouchy argued that parents and teachers should expose children to suffering in order to maintain their what
What is sensitivity
The man with the expensive watch and the poor mans son are examples of caring more about the sentiments of the "blank" than our own?
What is the spectator?