Hume
This is the term Hume uses to describe the less vivid perceptions we experience when recalling past sensations and/or ideas.
What is Impressions?
A french philosopher is known for his assertion that “existence precedes essence”
Who is Jean Paul Sarte/
In the First Meditation, Descartes considers whether this can be trusted, suggesting that they may deceive him in his/our dreams.
What are Senses?
In Plato’s Allegory, the prisoners mistake these for reality.
What are shadows?
The existential detectives in the film help clients understand their CONNECTION with the universe, oftne using this technique to uncover meaning.
What is Interconnectedness
All objects of Human reason/enquiry may naturally be divided into TWO kinds. (Hint: one deals with math while the other deals with reason)
What is Relations of Ideas and Matters of Fact?
Accoriding to Sarte, humans are condemned to this because they are free to make their own choices.
What is Freedom?
The famous statement Descartes says that serves as a cornerstone of his philosophy, which expresses the link between THOUGHT and existence.
What is “I Think Therefore, I Am”?
Plato’s allegory of The Cave is a metaphor for this process, in which one transitions from ignorance to knowledge
What is Enlightenment?
The french philosopher, often reference in I Heart Huckabees, showed concepts of existence, identitiy and absurdity.
Who is Jean-Paul Sarte?
Hume claims that even complex ideas(like a golden mountain) are created by combining basic mental elements.
What is Simple Ideas?
Sarte’s concept that exisitence precedes essence means that human beings first exist and then do this.
What is define their own nature?
Descartes Argues that the existence of this being guarantees the truth of clear and distinct perceptions.
Who is God?
Plato uses this physical structure to symbolize the constriats of human perception in the allegory
What is the cave?
Plato’s theory that the physcial world is only a shadow of a higher, more perfect reality is known as this.
What is the Theory of Forms?
This principle of association explains how ideas are connected when they share similarities.
What is Resemblance?
This concpt inolves living true to oneself and acknowledging one’s freedom and responsibilty.
What is Authenticity?
The process of doubting everything, including the existence of the external world.
What is Radical Skeptisim?
In the allegory, the prisoners mistake these things as reality.
What are shadows?
This ethical theory argues that actions are morally right if they follow a set of rules or duties, regardless of the consequences.( Hint: Immanuel Kant)
What is Dentology?
Hume gives three principles that guide how ideas are connected in the mind. (Two is also good)
What is Resemblance, Contiguity, and Cause and Effect?
Sart’s existentialism places a heavy empahis on this emotion, which comes from a person when they realize the weight of their freedom and responsibility.
What is anguish?
In the First Meditation, Descartes suggests that this hypothetical being could be the sourcce of all deception.
What is an Evil Demon/Genius?
Plato was a student of this philospher and later became the teacher of Aristole.
Who is Socrates?
In I Heart Huckabees, the detectives help ALbert confrotn this deep, often troubling realization about the the meaning of existence.
What is Exiistential Dread?