The discipline that investigates the correct principles of formal reasoning
What is logic?
100
The systematic study of how we ought to act, both toward ourselves and to others; and also the study of what things are good or bad
What is ethics?
100
This branch of philosophy has been the most important branch of philosophy since the seventeenth century
What is epistemology?
100
One of the central analytical devices of the great social and political philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
What is the state of nature?
100
The major proponent against capitalism and considered the father of modern Socialism
Who is Karl Marx
200
The assertion of a claim or conclusion that is supported with evidence in the form of information, data, numbers, or reasons
What is an argument?
200
The view which denies that any acts are either right or wrong
What is ethical nihilism?
200
Unlike the social sciences, this type of discipline chooses to examine what ought to be instead of what is
What is normative?
200
System of free market exchanges, with an absolute minimum of government control is believed to result in the most efficient use of resources and the greatest material well-being of society
What is Laissez-faire capitalism?
200
The third and most important layer of Marx's material base of society
What is social relations of production?
300
When the truth of the premises of an argument guarantees the truth of the conclusion
What is deductive logic?
300
Ethical theory that promotes morality as being subjected to society practice; you cannot judge another moral stance based on your own; argued by Ruth Benedict
What is ethical relativism?
300
The theory that all human knowledge comes from the evidence of our five senses, and therefore that we can never know more, or know with greater certainty, than the sense will allow
What is empiricism?
300
An obstacle to rational self-interested action
What is superstition?
300
The solution to the irrationality of capitalism as defined by Karl Marx.
What is Socialism?
400
The term invented by Kant to refer to a command that orders us to do something unconditionally
What is the categorical imperative?
400
The idea that there is a rational principle of order or a norm in accordance with which the universe has been created or organized
What is natural law?
400
This government misinterpreted the philosophical political theory proposed by Karl Marx and immediately jumped from feudalism to socialism.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
The perversion of the process of externalization that results in destructive alienation.
What is substantive irrationality?
500
An argument that is both valid and its premises are true
What is a sound argument?
500
The ideology proposed by Kant that moral agents are the authors of the moral law
What is autonomous?
500
Philosophical theory, discussed by DuBois, that describes an individual whose identity is divided into several facets
What is double consciousness?
500
This historical evidence that illustrates the shift from feudalism to capitalism by the shift in the social relations of production
What is the American Civil War?
500
The inability to distribute products in the market due to the goal of maximum profit