Terms for INQ 111: Seeing Anew . . . Again
You are responsible for learning all the terms in this list that have been covered so far, e.g., as they are used in class or
appear in the assigned readings. Look in the course book(s) for definitions or explanations; use also other sources listed
in the syllabus as well as resources in the library or on the Web.
Pay attention to the use of these words in your readings and in class. Never be afraid to ask me or others what a term
means (but do the research yourself first).
N.B.
Terms in yellow may be on quiz #1.
In addition, terms in green may be on the midterm exam.
In addition, terms in blue may be on quiz #3.
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a priori
a priori method
abacus
absolutes
absolutism
absurdity
Adam
allegory
Anabaptists
Andersen, Hans Christian
androcentrism
animism
anthropocentrism
anthropology
anthropomorphism
anti-progressivism
apodictic
Aquinas
arabesque
Aristotle
arms race
Arians
Aryans
atheism
Atomists
atonality
Augustine
authority
avatar
Bach, Johann Sebastian
banking concept of education
Beethoven, Ludwig van
Being-psychology
belief
belief engine
big bang theory
Boolean operators
Brecht
browser
bushmen
call number
canon
capitalism
casuistic
categorical imperative
causality
cause
Christ
civil disobedience
classics
coalitional contention
codex
co-evolution (of genes & culture)
collective immortality
colonialism
commons
communism
communitarianism
community
Compatibilism
conscience
conscious(ness)
conservative
conventional ethical relativism
conventional wisdom
conventionalism
Copernicus
Copland, Aaron
correlation
cosmogony
cosmology
creation
Creationism
creative extremist
critical thinking
critique
cultural relativism
culture
cultural evolution
custom
Dante
Darwin, Charles
delight
demythologization
dependency thesis
strong thesis of dependency
weak thesis of dependency
Descartes, René
design
designer
determinism
directionality
diversity thesis
divine command theory
Dualists
dualism
ecclesia
economics
education
egalitarianism
ego
egocentrism
Einstein, Albert
eisegesis
e-mail
emetic information
emic
emotivism
empiricism
enculturation
enlightened despots
Enlightenment
environmentalism
Epicureanism
epistemology
Eppur si muove.
essence
ethical relativism
ethics
ethnocentrism
ethnography
ethos
etic
etiology
Eve
evolution
evolutionary epistemology
exegesis
exemptionalism
existentialism
Exodus
experience
exponential (geometrical) growth
faith
fascism
fatalism
fideism
first cause
forms
Forum
Francis of Assisi
Freakonomics
free choice
“free will”
fresco
Freud
Frost, Robert
fundamentalism
Galileo
gazetteer
Geisteswissenschaften
geocentric
God
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
gospel
Homer
Gospel
Gothic
guild
haiku
harmony
Hawking
hedonic factor
heliocentric
helpful let-be
hermeneutical circle
hermeneutics
homo erectus
homo sapiens
http
https
Hubble
hubris
human being
iconoclasm
idealism
ideas
imagination
Impressionism
incentive
(the) Index
individualism
indulgences
induction
information asymmetry
Internet
invisible hand
ISBN
Jefferson, Thomas
Jesus
journal
juggernaut theory of human nature
just law
Kant, Immanuel
karma
Kennedy, John F.
Kepler
knowledge
King, Martin Luther, Jr
LAN
language
LC
Lemaître, Georges
liberal
liberal (arts) education
Libertarianism
liturgy
Locke, John
magazine
materialism
Marx, Karl
Marxism
maya
Messiah
metaphysics
method of authority
method of tenacity
Mill, John Stuart
minaret
mind’s eye
monotheism
moral absolutism
moral objectivism
moral relativism
moral skepticism
moral subjectivism
morality
motivation theory
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
mutual coercion
myth
nature
natural law
natural selection
Naturwissenschaften
Nazism
Neanderthal
Neo-Platonism
Newman, John Henry
Newton, Isaac
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
nihilism
nirvana
nonviolent direct action
objectivism
objectivity
Occam’s razor
October Revolution
ontological progression
ontology
OPAC
orthodoxy
Orthodoxy
pedagogy
pedestal-smashing
perception
periodical
periodical index
person
personhood
Picasso, Pablo
(the) Pietá
philosophy
place-value
plagiarism
Plato
Plebeians
poem
Pontificia Academia Scientiarum
positive feedback
predestination
primary source
problem-posing education
processual nature of being
progressivism
providence
psychoanalysis
Ptolemy
punctuated equilibrium
Ramadan
rationalism
realism
reality
reason
reciprocal altruism
reform & status quo
regression analysis
relativism
relativity
relief
religion
Renaissance man
risen animal
ritual
Samaritan
samurai
Sanskrit
satire
scholasticism
science
Scientific Creationism
scientific method
Scopes, John
scroll bar
secondary source
self
Semitic
SETI
seven liberal arts
Shintoism
shogun
sine qua non
Smith, Adam
social Darwinism
socialism
sociology
Socrates
Socratic method
soliloquy
sonnet
Sophists
species
speciesism
spectroscopy
spin-doctoring
steady-state theory
Stoicism
subjective ethical relativism
subjectivism
substance
Swahili
symbol(ic)
symphony
synthesis
tabula rasa
Talmud
Tao
Taoism
technical solution
theism
(scientific) theory
theory of hierarchy of needs
theory of self-actualization
thesis
thought experiment
toga
Torah
totalitarian
tradition
tragedy of the commons
truth
unified theory
universals
utility
URL
van Gogh, Vincent
virtue
vocation
Vulgate
Web domain name
word
world
World Wide Web
Zulu