Metaphysics Test Review Sheet (First Half)
For this test, you need to be familiar with
1. Introduction to Metaphysics
2. The Soul and Plato’s Theories of Reality
3. The Self
4. Personhood
5. Human Nature
Major Terms:
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Idealists
Existentialists
Materialists
Determinism vs. free will
Substance
Essence
The Meno
Impermanence
Anatta
Anicca
Dukkha
Self - Deception
Monists
Egoists vs. alturists
Philosophers:
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Plato
Descartes
Heidegger
Sartre
Siddhartha Gautama
Keirkegaard
Najaruna (idea of emptiness)
Socrates
Simone de Beauvoir
Stuart Hampshire
Richard Rorty
Derek Parfit
John Locke
Daniel Dennett
Mary Ann Warren
Annette Baier
Paul Ricoeur
David Hume
Concepts:
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Plato’s Theories of Reality – soul, recollection and forms
Material world vs. non – material world
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Senses vs. reason
Theories of the Self
Theories of personhood
Human Nature
Plato’s ideas of what is real
The branch of metaphysics (what does it look at?)
Theory and views of the self
The idea of emptiness
Taoists/Tao
Perfect forms vs. perfect copies
Personal identity