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Zeitgeist
What is the spirit of the times
Europe shifted from being God-centered to being human-centered during...
the Renaissance
Anaximander described something that had the capability of becoming anything...
What is the physis
Comte and Mach had this belief in common
metaphysical speculation should be avoided
Appearances and convention were the guides for living for which group of people?
Skeptics
Historicism
What is the study of history for its own sake without trying to show the relationship between past and present.
Discrimination against women was wrong according to...
J.S. Mill
The time period when people transitioned from a nomadic life to building villages is called...
Neolithic Revolution
The only true understanding of the Absolute was a key part of who's belief?
Hegel
Finding clear ideas gives us pleasure according to...
Spinoza
The approach Hobbes used to study humans
What is the deductive approach?
Kuhn's beliefs, values, assumptions, and way of doing research accepted by scientists are ...
a paradigm
Heraclitus's philosophy raised what important philosophical question?
How can something be known if it is constantly changing?
Galileo's work caused a major shift in regard to man's place in the world, describe that.
human experiences are inferior to the natural world
The belief that some acts are more desirable than others is held by which group?
Rationalists
Democritus believed anything can be explained with an approach including atoms and their activity or...
What is elementism?
Luther disagreed with the Catholic Church on ...
the requirement for celibacy for priests and nuns.
Hippocrates would tell you that your physical illness was caused by ...
What is an imbalance of the 4 bodily humors.
Two methods of attaining knowledge that are combined in science ...
What is Rationalism and Empiricism?
Mental experiences could be reduced to _______ according to James Mill?
simple ideas
A goal of St. Thomas Aquinas was...
to strengthen the position of the church through reason.
Who is credited with laying the foundation for the Reformation?
Erasmus
Christianity was defined by a single set of beliefs and documents due to who's efforts?
Constatine
We are ignorant of true physical reality was an idea promoted by ...
Kant
What was the important belief regarding monads?
Humans possess the ability to think most clearly after God.