The fair distribution of of society's benefits and burdens such as jobs, income property liberties, rights, welfare aid, taxes and public services.
What is Distributive justice?
100
The philosophical study of knowledge.
What is epistemology?
100
An argument that reasons from the existence of the universe or ordering of existence to justify the existence of God.
What are Cosmological Arguments?
100
The claim that knowledge has three criteria. 1. the proposition p is true; 2. you believe that p; 3. you have the belief that p is justified.
What is the Justified True Belief?
100
An argument intended to give logically conclusive support to its conclusions.
What is a Deductive Argument?
200
The idea that people should get what they deserve.
What is justice?
200
The view that we lack knowledge in some fundamental way.
What is skepticism?
200
The belief in the alleged ability to access, through visions or trances, divine knowledge that is unattainable through sense experience or reason.
What is Mysticism?
200
In Plato's philosophy the objectivity real eternal abstract entities that serve as models or universals of higher knowledge.
What are Forms?
200
A word that names a class, or category of things in a deductive argument.
What is Term?
300
The view that justice is secured and the state is made legitimate, though an agreement among citizens of the state or between the citizens and the rulers of the state.
What is the social contract theory?
300
Knowledge that depends entirely on sense experience.
What is a posteriori knowledge?
300
Evil that comes about form human actions and choices.
What is Moral Evil?
300
The view that the mind or soul and matter are two different things.
What is Dualism?
300
A deductive argument made up of three statements-two premise and a conclusion.
What is Syllogism?
400
The presumption that events that followed one another in the past will do the same in the future.
What is the Principle of Induction?
400
Those who believe that at some or all of out knowledge about the world is gained independence of sense experience.
What are rationalists?
400
A blend of Plato's metaphysics, especially the view concerning the theory of forms with other non-materialist or religious ideas.
What is Neo-Platonism?
400
A system of rule by an elite distinguished by abilities and achievements.
What is Meritocracy?
400
A truth that could not have been false.
What is necessary truth?
500
Leibniz's term for the only true substances-immaterial mental entities that constitute reality.
What are Monads?
500
Those who believe that our knowledge of the world comes solely from our sense experience.
What are Empiricists?
500
Arguments that make a reference to the ontological features of a concept.
What are Ontological Arguments?
500
Disorder of the parts prevented us from having epistemic knowledge.
What is Plato's view of morality?
500
Aristotle's school of philosophy and science named after its location, a grove just outside Athens dedicated to the god Apollo Lyceus.