Terms to Know for the AP Test Argumentation (The use of logic to prove a point) Assert/assertions/unqualified assertions - opinions stated as facts – the basis of all arguments Ex.: “Such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics‚ body is left free‚ and the soul is enslaved.” The writer asserts that‚ in democratic republics‚ the soul is enslaved. This assertion rests upon an assumption – a supposed “fact” that is never actually proved. The assumption is that
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Classical Greece and Hellenistic Greece have a lot of differences. They have differences in time as the classical Greek‚ or‚ Hellenic period was the time before the death of Alexander The Great. Some of them are the studies of philosophy‚ literature‚ art‚ science‚ and religion. As a result of Alexander’s campaigns‚ the Greek world was forever changed after his death in 323 BCE. Alexander’s campaigns had brought the Greeks into contact with a number of Asian cultures‚ and Alexander had wanted
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improbability of a coin landing on heads so many times in a row‚ Rosencrantz happily continues flipping. Guildenstern questions whether the continuous outcome of heads is purely chance or if there are supernatural forces. Guildenstern then commences his syllogism where he tries to make sense of the continuous outcome of heads but eventually ends up on the topic of the growth of fingernails. Stoppard has shown this character’s attempt to understand such occurrences in the world but Guildenstern does not make
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René Descartes (1596—1650) René Descartes is often credited with being the “Father of Modern Philosophy.” This title is justified due both to his break with the traditional Scholastic-Aristotelian philosophy prevalent at his time and to his development and promotion of the new‚ mechanistic sciences. His fundamental break with Scholastic philosophy was twofold. First‚ Descartes thought that the Scholastics’ method was prone to doubt given their reliance on sensation as the source for all knowledge
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Natural Law – denotes a system of moral and ethical principles that are inherent in human nature and that people can discover through the us of their natural intelligence‚ or reason. Positive Law – Or national law (the written law of a given society at a particular point in time)‚ applies only to the citizens of that nation or society. Legal Realism – the idea that law is just one of many institutions in society and that it is shaped by social forces and needs. Constitutional Law – The
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Religion St. Peter’s CollegePre-CambridgeYear 11Introduction to Philosophy Student Text Book 1: Ancient Greece | | Name __________________________________________________________ Table of Contents Ancient Greece The Birth of Western Philosophy ………………………………………………………… 2 Socrates‚ The Apology ……………………………………………………………………. 6 Plato‚ “The Cave” ………………………………………………………………………… 11 Aristotle‚ “The Doctrine of the Mean” …………………………………………………… 14 Truth‚ Opinion‚ Knowledge ………………………………………………………………
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Axiology * Area of philosophy that specifically deals with the problem of value. * Refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do‚ usually in terms of rights‚ obligations‚ benefits to society‚ fairness‚ or specific virtues. * It seeks to realize the question like: What is value? What are the important values which are to be desired in livings? Are these values rooted in reality? And how can these values be realized in our daily experiences
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Part 2: Proving God’s existence to an atheist- Teleological Argument First‚ some atheist arguments that may be brought up in the beginning is as follows: God is omnibenevolent and would thus desire to eliminate evil‚ and God is omnipotent and thus could eliminate evil. Evil exists in the world‚ thus God does not exist since evil exists. This is a common argument that may come up about the existence of evil in the world. Most of the evil in the world only occurs because we choose to create it. When
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“sublime”‚ and the other who says it is “pretty”. Gaius and Titius say the description of the waterfall as “pretty” should be rejected but “sublime” accepted. They state that the description “sublime” refers to the tourist’s feelings‚ not the waterfall itself. In cases such as this Gaius and Titius add that “we appear to be
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