Ancient Greek philosopher often called "the father of Western philosophy."
Who is Socrates?
100
The two distinct entities that Hume finds to be the contents of experience.
What is impressions and ideas?
100
The basic sensations of our experience and elemental data of our minds. Hint: grief, fear, happiness, etc..
What is impression?
100
"We are unknown, we knowers, ourselves to ourselves; this has good reason. We have never searched for ourselves-how should it then come to pass, that we should ever find ourselves?"
Who is Friedrich Nietzsche?
100
Socrates' lifespan.
What is 469-399 B.C.E?
200
Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, and teacher of Aristotle best known as the author of philosophical works of unparalleled influence.
Who is Plato?
200
The controlling factor that Plato believes must reside over appetite and spirit.
What is reason?
200
The belief that all knowledge of ourselves and our world is based on the phenomena of experience.
What is phenomenology?
200
"Yet once more consider the matter in another light: When the soul and the body are united, then nature orders the soul to rule and govern, and the body to obey and serve."
Who is Socrates?
200
Plato's lifespan.
What is 427-347 B.C.E?
300
Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism.
Who is David Hume?
300
What John Locke believes to be necessary to "personal identity," or knowledge of the self as a person.
What is self-consciousness?
300
The belief that reason is the main source of all knowledge and that only our reasoning abilities can enable us to understand sense experience and reach accurate conclusions.
What is rationalism?
300
"The divine is beauty, wisdom, goodness, and all such qualities; by these then the wings of the soul are nourished and grow..."
Who is Plato?
300
St. Augustine's lifespan.
What is 354-430?
400
Austrian doctor who founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
400
What Gilbert Ryle believes to be the defining quality of the self.
What is behavior?
400
The philosophical view that all aspects of the universe are composed of matter and energy and can be explained by physical laws.
What is materialism?
400
"If (the Platonists) could have had this life over again with us...they would have become Christians, with the change of a few words and statements."
Who is St. Augustine?
400
Rene Descartes' lifespan.
What is 1596-1650?
500
Christian philosopher who taught rhetoric and became the Bishop of the city of Hippo.
Who is St. Augustine?
500
What Sigmund Freud discovered by which he believes the unconscious can be studied.
What is the scientific method?
500
No permanent self, something persists continually but it is not personal identity. Hint: non-theistic religion
What is Buddhism?
500
So blind is the curiosity by which mortals are possessed, that they often conduct their minds along unexplored routes, having no reason to hope for success..."