A | B |
Socrates | The unexamined life is not worth living. |
Socrates | Thought thinking logically might help us be less conformist. |
Socrates | Executed by hemlock. |
Socrates | Accused of corruption of youth and atheism. |
Socrates | Apparently not classically handsome. |
Socratic irony | Wisest is he who knows he does not know. |
Socratic dialogue | Using questions to reach logical truths. |
Socratic method | 1) Make statement of common sense 2) Try to find exception 3) If find one, statement is false 4) Restate new statement 5) Continue to find exceptions |
Socrates problem with democracy | Tyranny of the majority |
Socrates apology | His defense |
Delphi | Know thyself |
Plato | Allegory of the Cave |
Plato | Republic |
Plato | Workers, Warriors, Philosopher Kings |
Dialectic | Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis |
Plato | Recorded Socrates Apology and Dialogues |
Descartes | Father of Western Philosophy |
Descartes | I think therefore I am; Cogito ergo sum |
Descartes | Rationalist |
Rationalism | Using logic and thinking to determine truths |
Empiricism | Using senses to determine knowledge |
Epistemology | The philosophical branch related to how we know what we know |
Ontological Argument | Proving the existence of God |
Locke | Empiricist |
Locke | Tabula Rasa; blank slate |
Prima facia | At first glance |
Locke | Natural laws of man |
natural laws | Made by all-powerful being, born free, born equal |
Nietzsche | Suffering and failure bring happiness |
Nietzsche | Nihilistic |
Nietzsche | Had a big moustache and went crazy from syphillis |
Nietzsche | Live dangerously |
Nietzsche | That which doesn't kill me makes me stronger. |
Nietzsche | Overman, superman, ubermensch |
Nietzsche | Man must rise above natural human failings and self-pitying |
Nietzsche | God is dead |
Nietzsche | Alcohol and religion are bad because they ease suffering. |
Sartre | existentialist |
Sartre | Man is condemned to be free. |
Sartre | Our choices determine who we are |
DeBouvoir | Feminist who believed nothing essential to identity |
DeBouvoir | Existentialist |
Freud | Id, Ego, Super Ego |
Freud | Man is driven by desires |
Freud | Repression is when we bury our unconscious desires |
Freud | Ego Defenses |
Arendt | Thoughtlessness leads to evil |
Arendt | Must think from the standpoint of someone else. |
Arendt | Discussed Nazi Eichmann as being evil because of his banality |
Berns | 16 year-old who told us to 1)Focus on Can 2) Surround yourself with good people 3) Look forward and 4) Never miss a party |
Sir Kenneth Robinson | Educator who thinks we need to shift the paradigm of education from one that is based more on aesthetics |