Philosophy Final Review
What philosophy literally means
Who is a philosopher
What metaphysics is
Different fields of metaphysics
Foundation of philosophy
What epistemology is
What logic is
What the study of ethics is
What aesthetics is
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
What the cave represents
3 Ideas the Allegory Demonstrates
Socratic Method
The Golden Mean
Why philosophy can be useful in anyone’s life
The Purpose of the Socrates Café
Why there are over 600 Socrates Cafés around the world
What a Claim is
What Theoretical Philosophy is
Attack against the person
Argument from Ignorance
Appeal to Pity
Appeal to the Masses
Appeal to Authority
Appeal to Hypocrisy
Red Herring
False Dilemma
Slippery Slope
Utilitarianism
Transcendentalism
Existentialism
Rationalism
Empiricism
What the One and the Many represent
Pessimists
Stoics
Epicureans
Skeptics
Rationalism
Empiricism
Idealism
Significance of the statement “I think, therefore I am”
What “Cogito ergo sum” represents
Why the optimistic philosophies of Plato and Aristotle were a thing of the past in the Hellenistic world
Moral Evil
Natural Evil
Atheism
Agnostic
Difference between how Jews and Christians view the Messiah
Ineffable
Supranatural
Confucius
Who Confucius believed would make the best rulers
What Confucius said about obeying commands of rulers
Siddhartha Guatama
What Siddhartha Guatama believed was the cause of human suffering
What Siddhartha Guatama means
Wu-wei
Karma
Moksha
Dharma
Nirvana
Eightfold Path
Which religions began in Middle East and which religions began in the Far East
Mohammed
Five Pillars
Ramadan
Koran
Mecca
Hajj
Alms
Arguments that explain how God can allow evil
Why critics say that if God exists, evil is not necessary
Free will defense
Religious experience
Omnibenevolent
Omnipotent
Theodicy
Transcendent
Ecstatic
Satori
Noetic
Monotheism (and which religions practice)
Ethical Subjectivism
Psychological Egoism
Morally Necessary
Morally Impermissible
Morally Permissible
Moral Prescriptive Claims
Non-moral Prescriptive Claims
Obligatory
Superobligatory
Ethical Egoism
Stoicism
Hedonism
Cynicism
Altruism
Virtue
Why Epicurus would say that you should not pursue all pleasure, all the time