Philosophy Key Terms

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Soul
Understood to be the non physical essence of a person.
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Forms
A name given to ideal concepts.
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Dualism
Belief that reality can be divided into two parts, like good and evil or physical and non physical.
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Monist
Belief that the body and soul are together.
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Rationalist
Someone who thinks the primary source of
knowledge is reason.
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Empiricist
Someone who thinks the primary source of knowledge is experience gained through the senses.
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Materialist
Someone who thinks nothing exists except matter and its modifications.
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Aetion
A reason or cause for something.
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Telos
The end or purpose of something.
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Consciousness
Awareness or perception.
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A priori
Reasoning prior to experience.
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A posteriori
Reasoning after experience.
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Eudaimonia
Relates to human happiness and fulfilment, we should all seek to have eudaimonia.
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Demi urge
Creator and superior form, the demi urge created the visible world by glimpsing at the form world.
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Actuality
State of being.
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Potentiality
State of potential.
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Scepticism
A questioning approach which does not take assumptions for granted.
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Category error/category mistake
When things are placed into one category when in fact they belong in another.
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Tripartite view
That the soul is made of three parts: appetite, reason and emotion.
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De anima
The soul.
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Psyche
Life giving principle.
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Natural theology
What we learn from God from observing the world around us and reasoning from it.
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Revealed theology
What we learn about God from what he has revealed to us. It gives us the truths we could not work out through reason.
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Contingent
Something that relies on something else for its existence.
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Necessary
Something that does not rely on something else for its existence.
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In esse
In actual existence.
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In frieri
In process of being complete.
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Essence
What a being is, separates beings in the fact that all beings hold different lives emotions and goals.
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Primary substance
Foundation before essence is introduces to a being.
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Reductive materialism
Known as identity theory, the idea that mental events are identical with physical occurrences in the brain.
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Emergent materialism
The view that new properties emerge from physical matter as it becomes more complex and the mind and body are different but not completely distinct.
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Category error/mistake
Problem of language that arises when things are talked about as if they belong to one category when in fact they belong to another.
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Property dualism
The view that there is only one kind of substance which is matter but that matter can have two distinct kinds of properties: physical and mental.
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Primary substance
Foundation before essence is introduced to a being.
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Necessary being
A necessary being is a subsistent being, All beings must rely on a cause for their existence.
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Ontology
Deals with the nature of existence, particularly the existence of God.
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Predicate
A property of something.
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Analytic
A statement that is true by definition, it is unchanging.
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Synthetic
A statement that is not true by definition.
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Mystical experience
Experiences of God or of the supernatural which go beyond everyday sense experience.
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Conversion experience
An experience that produces a radical change in someone's belief system.
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Corporate religious experience
Religious experience that happens to a group of people.
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Numinous experience
Indescribable experience that includes feelings of awe, worship and fascination.
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Ineffability
Experience is impossible to expressed adequately.
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Noetic quality
Gives an insight into something, it is an understanding.
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Transience
The experience is over soon even though the effect of the experience may be long term.
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Passivity
The person having the experience are recipients of the experience rather than the instigators of it. They are experiencing but they cannot control.
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A name given to ideal concepts.

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Forms

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Belief that reality can be divided into two parts, like good and evil or physical and non physical.

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Belief that the body and soul are together.

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Someone who thinks the primary source of
knowledge is reason.

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