Logic
This involves justifying beliefs by the use of arguments, our ability to logically make decisions.
What is Reasoning?
The concept of tabula rasa is key for this theory.
What is Empiricism?
The Greeks thought this marine life mammal was a God.
What is a Dolphin?
Something one is required to do. An obligation, or responsibility.
What is a duty?
A form of government in which the supreme authority is vested in a single person.
What is a Monarchy?
This is a type of statement that is considered to be either true or false. (X2)
What is a proposition?
He said, "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
Monism & Dualism are part of this Metaphysical Debate?
What is the Mind Body Debate?
The statement: "You shall not kill" is an example of this type of duty.
What is negative duty.
In this type of government, a small number (4 to 8 citizens) have control of the government. They act in the their own interest.
What is an Oligarchy?
The simplest explanation is the one that makes the fewest assumptions.
What is Ockam's Razor?
This theory states that humans generate knowledge through this, and that senses are not reliable submitters of information about the outer world.
What is Rationalism and What is reason?
He said the soul is divided into 3 parts: Appetite, Spirit, & Reason.
Who is Plato?
The concept of acting out of Duty.
What is Deontology?
This type of government rejects liberal ideas such as freedom, and individual rights, and often presses for the destruction of elections legislatures, and other elements of democracy, but promotes free enterprise/capitalism.
What is Fascism?
This type of an argument is an attack on the arguer not his/her argument.
What is an Ad Hominem (Attack on the person)
This theory claims that there is no external world, and all that exists is the minds and it's ideas.
What is Idealism?
A philosophical concept - a being with certain capacities?
What is a person?
What is Relativism?
This is a system of government and ideology in which all activities are subordinated to the purposed of the ruler of a state. (X2)
What is Totalitarianism (Dictatorship)?
This premise must be true because people have always believed or done it
What is appeal to tradition.
Most common people hold the belief that there is an external world, and objects in the world cause our senses perceptions. We learn through our senses. Things are as they appear.
What is Direct Realism
This theory denies the existence of free will and says that all thoughts, action, desires and physical events are caused by previous events.
What is Hard Determinism? (X2)
The view that right and wrong are true whether we believe them to be or not.
What is Objectivism? Or What is Absolutism?
A type of government in which the common people hold political power and can rule either directly or through elected representatives.
What is Democracy?