philosophy
Terms
undefined, object
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- essence
- set of properties of each thing uniquely the kind of thing that it is
- rationalism
- descartes, reason is primary source of knowledge
- forms
- socrates; object of knowledge and source of derived reality of the sensible world
- why is essence a universal idea?
- creating essence (human) -> humanity
- why does existence come before essnce for humans?
- god makes man -> god gives purpose -> god lays perimeters
- indeterminism
- choice, option, chance and possibilty are real
- what is the difference between sartes ESSENCE and EXISTENCE?
- that it is vs. what it is
- social contract
- theory government finds its justification in an agreement among individuals
- dialectic
- progession of questions and answers
- determinsim
- choice and chance are not real
- intuition
- direct and immediate knowledge
- existence
- "i am, to be," Being