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Logic and Reason Aesthetics Ethics Epistemology Metaphysics Existentialism

This famous philosopher is known as the “father of logic”

Who is Aristotle?

100

200

A common human occurrence, this limits a person’s ability to

reason effectively

What is emotion?

300

Known as top-down, this type of reasoning begins with a

conclusion and moves towards supporting facts

What is Deductive?

400

Known as bottom up, this type of reasoning begins with supporting

facts and moves towards a conclusion

What is Inductive?

500

Definition, Testimony, Comparison, Relationship and

Circumstance are all examples of these categories of evidence put

forth by Aristotle

What are the Common Topics?

100

Romeo and Juliet’s love would be an example of this term for “love

without reason”

What is Irrational Love?

200

10 Things I Hate About You or The Taming of the Shrew illustrate this

“reason based” type of love

What is Rational Love?

300

People who believe that there is a definitive right and wrong when assessing beauty and art take a view that is referred to as this

What is Objective?

400

People who believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder when judging art take a view that is

referred to as this

What is Subjective?

500

Aristotle asserted that Eros, Philos and Agape are all different

examples of this

What are the Three Types of Love?

100

This area of ethics is comprised of various theories put forth to

determine what is right and what is wrong

What is Normative Ethics?

200Taken from the Greek word

meaning “duty” this ethical theory believes the morality of an action

is grounded by some form of authority independent of the

consequences that such actions generate

What is deontological?

300Also know as consequentialism,

this ethical theory states that morality or immorality of an act is

the function solely of the consequences of that act

What is Teleological?

400This ethical theory put forth by

Jeremy Bentham asserts that the proper course of action is the one

that maximizes happiness and reducing suffering for the greatest

number.

What is Utilitarianism?

500Otherwise know as “universal

law”, this ethical theory put forth by Immanuel Kant states that a

moral action must be valuable in itself, not valuable for what it

produces

What is the Categorical Imperative?

100

Defined as knowledge that can be obtained through the process of

thinking and understanding

What is Rationalism?

200

Defined as knowledge that can be obtained through sensory

experience

What is Empiricism?

300

Known as __________, this form of knowledge cannot include opinion of bias and bust be

justified using factual evidence.

What is Genuine Knowledge?

400

Described by Plato in his “Allegory of the Cave”, the world

where perfect examples exist untarnished by the changes and

imperfections of the visible world

What is the World of Forms/Being?

500Explained in his composition

Meditations, Descartes contemplates this theory that

asserts that his reality could all be an illusion created by some

unknown mastermind

What is the Great Deceiver?

100

This metaphysical theory asserts that all of reality consist of one universal/essential substance

What is Monist?

200

This philosopher identified the “Four Causes of Creation” as

material cause, efficient cause, formal cause and final cause

Who is Aristotle?

300

Aristotle’s explanation of the process of change in the world where by nature and humans

move from imperfection to perfection

What are potentiality and actuality?

400

Defined as the self contained actuality or “end” of anything

What is entelechy?

500

The is presocratic philosopher was a pluralist who believed that the essential substance of nature

was made of atoms

Who is Democritus?

100

This philosopher is was considered an atheist and one of

the fathers of Existentialism

Who is Jean Paul Sartre?

200

This criticism put forth by Soren Kierkegaard asserts that people can be so inclined to following

others to the extent of neglecting one’s own significance

What is Herd Mentality?

300

Defined as an “overman” or person who does not allow

oneself to be manipulated by any outside force

What is ubermensch?

400

When one recognizes their anxiety about their own existence, what it is and where it comes from they

are experiencing this stage of the existential process.

What is an existential moment?

500

This was described by Viktor Frankl as “the quest of man to

find and fulfill meaning and purpose in life”

What is the will to meaning?