 | Term | Definition |
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indeterminism |
choice, option, chance and possibilty are real |
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determinsim |
choice and chance are not real |
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rationalism |
descartes, reason is primary source of knowledge |
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existence |
"i am, to be," Being |
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intuition |
direct and immediate knowledge |
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social contract |
theory government finds its justification in an agreement among individuals |
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dialectic |
progession of questions and answers |
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forms |
socrates; object of knowledge and source of derived reality of the sensible world |
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essence |
set of properties of each thing uniquely the kind of thing that it is |
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what is the difference between sartes ESSENCE and EXISTENCE? |
that it is vs. what it is |
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why is essence a universal idea? |
creating essence (human) -> humanity |
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why does existence come before essnce for humans? |
god makes man -> god gives purpose -> god lays perimeters |
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