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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Campbell | The Power of Myth |
| Einstein | E=mc^2 |
| Messiah | CHRIST |
| Zoroastrian wise lord | Ahura Mazda |
| Hindu cosmic cycle | 8.64 billion years |
| William Paley | Teleological argument |
| Pythagoras | Harmonium |
| "utopia" | comes from 2 Greek words & literally means, "no where" |
| "anthropomorphize" | means, human form |
| Ruah | means; wind, breath, spirit |
| The Jewish law | as 248 positive precepts |
| Demiurge | Means half or secondary makers |
| Gala | is the Greek personification of Mother Earth |
| Augustine | is the first great western philosopher of history. |
| Ontogeny | recapitulates phylogeny |
| Protageras | argues, " when in Rome, do as the Romans do." |
| Campbell | urged us to, "Follow your bliss" |
| Diogenes | declared himself to be a cosmopolitan. |
| African Origins | According to evolutionary theory we all have African origins. |
| Kant | urged us to use the categorical imperative. |
| Homo | All human beings are part of this species |
| Socrates | argued we must obey even "unjust" laws of the country. |
| Nietzsche | "ubermensch" |
| Thoreau | "on Civil Disobedience" |
| Kierkegaard | "That Individual" |
| Hylozoism | All matter is alive |
| Einstein | Human |
| Agape | ethical love/ empathetic concern |
| Schweitzer | "Reverence of life" |
| Regentrix | Old Europe |
| Empathize | when we literally "share suffering" with another. |
| Bergson | is the philosopher who advocated intuitional "Spiritual auscultation." |
| Plato | authored "the Allegory of the cave." |
| Wild pig | "sus scrofa" |
| The awakened one | Buddha |
| Santre | argued that "we are condemned to be free." |
| Berkeley | phrase, "esse is percipi" means to be is to be perceived. |
| Metaphysics | is defined as the science which claims to dispense with symbols |
| Bertrand Russell | The correspondence truth test |
| John Locke | argued that the mind at birth is tabula rosa- a clean slate. |
| Chronological | we get the word "chronological" from the Greek "chronos" meaning "time" |
| Induction | results in merely probable knowledge. |
| Empirical knowledge | is gained through using senses. |
| Four noble truths | on the 8 fold Buddhist path. |
| Augustine | "ex nihilo" |
| Hume | Scottish skeptic |
| Kant | "operational truths" |
| Theresa of Avila | Western Mystic |
| Epistemology | study of human knowledge |
| Underhill | APIDU |
| Spinoza | Coherence truth test |
| Bergson | "elan vital" |
| Prof. Mummert | believes, "the earth is a garden for growing love." |
| Sannyasic | is the last stage of life for Hindus. |
| Voltaire | stated, "God is a comedian playing to an audience which is afraid to laugh." |
| "person | is from the Greek "persona" meaning mask/false face |
| ego | the greek word for "i" |
| "synoptic" | Seeing (everything) together. |
| Thanatology | the study of the death event. |
| Phthagoras | was the person who invented the term "philosophy" |
| "philosophy" | comes from the Greek words "philein" & "sophia" which means love of wisdom. |
| oxygen | slowing of cerebral oxygen makes time appear to pass faster. |
| Hitler | was an aristocentric Aryan (German/Austrian) |
| Plato | did his learning in the Agura |
| Plato | argued, "a woman is merely a lesser man." |
| Thales | Thought all things were made of water. |
| Hume | agreed with the Buddhist concept of "anatta." |
| Frankl | argued we exist in an "existential vacuum." |
| camus | The Myth of sisyphus |
| Freud | Id |
| Aurelius | Stoic Caesar |
| Erickson | Developmental Psychologist |
| Satan | The adversary |
| Rand | The virtue of selfishness |
| Socrates | "Know Thyself" |
| Aristotle | Lyceum |
| Galileo | heliocentric |
| All empirical knowledge | is only contingent knowledge. |
| Janus | has two heads |
| Kazantzakis wrote | "Zorba the Greek" |
| Lao-tzu | believed we are here to seek the Tao |
| "atom" | comes from the Greek "a-tome" which means uncuttable. |
| Superman | is aware that there are 36 protons in the nucleus of Krypton. |
| "pneuma" | The Greek means breath, wind, spirit |
| "dakhma" | is a tower of silence |
| Wednesday | is named for the god Wodenlodin |
| "Paradise" | comes from the Persian language. |
| Werner Heisenberg | published the "Uncertainty Principle." |
| Thanotologist | are philosophers of the death event. |
| "Yeshua bar Yoseph" | Jesus Son Christ |
| "psyche-ology" | literally means "soul- ology." |
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