The Enlightenment had great success because of this invention
What is the printing press?
100
What do we do to the universe according to this philosophy?
What is impose order onto it, it is really chaos?
100
Define dharma
What is one's duty to do what is right?
100
Define existentialism, in a basic form
What is the belief that we are what we are and there is nothing else, little hope, no past, and no future. OTHER RESPONSES ACCEPTED.
100
Define logic
What is using concrete data and predictability to reason through a problem or situation?
200
Enlightenment thinkers felt this about education.
What is everyone should have it?
200
What are aesthetics?
What is the measure of beauty in an object?
200
Define karma.
What is getting back whatever you put out into the universe?
200
What is the term for the human drive to destroy itself?
What is Nihilism?
200
Philosophy is the study of
What is the history of human knowledge and fundamental human problems?
300
What did Enlightenment thinkers feel about social class?
What is it was oppressive and unfair/ridiculous?
300
This is the definition of ascetic.
What is to deprive one's self?
300
Nirvana can be defined as
What is a total state of enlightenment?
300
An understanding in society that we will follow certain guidelines is known as this.
What is a social contract?
300
Ethics can be defined as this
What is a system of behavior and moral code of right actions?
400
What did Enlightenment thinkers believe you should do when faced with a tyrant?
What is overthrow him?
400
What was Nietzsche's idea of the perfect human being?
What is the Ubermensch or the Overman/Superman?
400
Right Thought is a characteristic of this
What is The Eightfold Path?
400
Universals or universal principles are this
What are rules that we accept as basically true everywhere?
400
Define Plato's forms
What is the idea that we can never really know reality because we live with vague representations of truth and we are too ignorant and insignificant to ever know truth?
500
According to the Enlightenment, who did NOT have a right to happiness?
What is no one?
500
Karl Marx believed there were two major classes, what are they and define them?
What are proletariats and bourgeoisie? The poor and the rich, essentially.
500
A Zen Garden is meant to do this?
What is provide metaphors for reflection and thought?