types of philosophy
vocabulary
legendary figures
100

The purpose of education is to help children find meaning and direction in their lives.

Existentialism

100

The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles.

Ethics

100

He founded the Academy, the world's first university.

Plato

200

A belief that free will is an illusion and that humans are shaped by their surroundings or environment.

Behaviorism 

200

A branch of philosophy that deals with reasoning.

Logic

200

Taught Alexnder the Great.

Aristotle 

300

Tries to teach students cumulative knowledge of our civilization through traditional academics.

Essentialism

300

The idea that society is a sorting system where the fittest survive.

Social Darwinism 

300

A teacher who didn't have a school. He walked around Athens and engaged with many people, talking to them and asking them questions about life.

Socrates

400

They are organized by learning through books and ideas, while they criticize essentialists for pushing their students into learning cultural literacy.

Perennialism

400

Drawing generalizations based on the observation of specific examples.

Inductive reasoning

400

He believes in behaviorism and popularized positive reinforcement. 

B. F. Skinner

500

Gives us knowledge that cannot be handed from one person to another; it should be made or constructed by the learner through interpretations.

Constructivism

500

Working from a general rule to identify particular examples and applications to that rule.

Deductive reasoning

500

Believes that reality is composed of both materialism and idealism, body and mind. The philosophy associated with him is called Cartesian dualism.

Rene Descartes