Who Said It?
"I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
The belief that pleasure (or the absence of pain) is the highest good.
Hedonism or Epicureanism
The scenario asks if you should pull a lever to redirect a runaway train from five people to one person.
The Trolly Problem
This ancient Greek philosopher was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock.
Socrates
This is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty, art, and taste.
Aesthetics
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Socrates
The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience (seeing, touching, hearing).
Empiricism
Plato's story of prisoners who mistake shadows on a wall for reality.
The Allegory of the Cave
Before becoming a philosopher, this "Prince" author was a diplomat and politician in Renaissance Florence.
Machiavelli
In logic, this is a flaw in reasoning that renders an argument invalid.
a Fallacy
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him!"
Nietzche)
The ethical framework that suggests we should act to create the greatest good for the greatest number.
Utilitarianism
This paradox asks if a wooden vessel remains the same object if every single one of its plans is replaced over time.
The Ship of Theseus
Alexander the Great
This branch of philosophy asks, "What is knowledge?" and "How do we know what we know?"
epistemology
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
Aristotle
Existentialism
The concept that true knowledge is knowing that you know nothing.
Socratic Paradox
This 18th century German philosopher was such a ruler follower and so punctual that his neighbors in Konigsberg set their watches by his daily walks.
Kant
Sisyphus was condemned by the gods to spend eternity doing this task.
Rolling a boulder up a hill.
"The essence of technology is by no means anything technological."
Martin Heidegger
The metaphysical view that only physical matter exists and everything, including consciousness, is a result of material interactions.
Materialism
Invisible
This philosopher remained a student of Plato for 20 years before leaving to tutor Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
This latin term refers to the "Blank Slate" theory that humans are born without built-in mental content.
Tabula Rasa