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100

Greek philosopher who said that if there are not absolutes, individual things are meaningless.

Plato

100

The old, optimistic way of thinking believed truth/meaning could be found through ______.

reason

100

Modern Scientists believed that ______ & _____ were outside the world of cause and effect.

God and man
100

Haeckel said, "Matter and energy are _________."

eternal

100

All behavior is caused by stimuli in the environment.

determinism

200

He popularized the idea of "survival of the fittest."

Darwin

200

Modern science believed in the uniformity of natural causes in a __________ system.

open

200

__________ is the combination of thesis and antithesis to form "new truth."

synthesis
200

Pasteur's discoveries nullified the idea that life cannot come from _________.

non-life

200

_____________ was the hero of the Enlightenment; _____________ became the hero of Romanticism.

reason  emotion

300

Who promoted the idea of taking a "leap of faith" to find meaning?

Kierkegaard

300
According to Kierkegaard, reason always leads to ___.

pessimism

300
Marquis de Sade believed that whatever is, ___ ______.

is right

300

The belief that primitive man is best because he has not been influenced by society.

noble savage

300

topic considered off-limits or banned

taboo

400

The Catholic church combined the beliefs of ________ with the Bible.

Aristotle

400
Medieval  Europeans based their science on authority, not _____________.

observation/experimentation

400

According to Bacon, in what 2 ways did man fall?

from innocence and from nature

400
In what 2 locations did Western Civilization begin?

Rome (Greece) and Israel

400

The belief that ethics depends on people and situations.

relativism

500
Who said, "I cannot believe that God plays dice with the universe."

Einstein

500

Which one of the following was not a modern scientist: Galileo, Bacon, Newton, Kepler, Darwin, Pascal.

Darwin

500

Rousseau's belief about education

The best education is no education.

500

An example of social Darwinism

Nazis eliminating a race, racism, genetic engineering

500

branch of philosophy that deals with how we can know

epistemology