PHIL101 Exam #2
Brahman - ✔️✔️The ultimate reality both of ourselves and of the universe; a unity
underlying all individual selves and things
Buddha - ✔️✔️Means "Enlightened One." He is said to have found a path for
overcoming suffering.
Cause and substance - ✔️✔️The two Greek Metaphysical issues
Confucius - ✔️✔️(551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and
created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history; ethics of community;
not trying to preserve traditions
Dao - ✔️✔️Confucius; the WAY/PATH
"That is this, the Self, the Inner Controller, the Immortal; valueless is anything other." -
✔️✔️Upanishads
"The learned and noble disciple...becomes divested of passion, and by the absence of
passion he becomes free." - ✔️✔️Buddha
"The reason for this transformation of concepts into symbols is the character of ultimacy
and the nature of faith." - ✔️✔️On The Ultimate Concern by Paul Tillich
"Truly, if it was once no easy thing to become a Christian, I believe now it becomes
more difficult every year, because by now it has become so easy to become one-one
who finds a little competition only in becoming a speculative philosopher." - ✔️✔️On
Subjective Truth by Soren Kierkegaard
"Where does evil come from, if God made all things and, because he is good, made
them good too?' - ✔️✔️Confessions by St. Augustine
3 Sets of Proofs for God - ✔️✔️1. Ontological
2. Cosmological
3. Teleological
Ahura Mazda - ✔️✔️In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world.
Analogy of lovers - ✔️✔️Soren Kierkegaard, you do not think about being in love
logically, sometimes love doesn't make sense
, Angra Mainyu - ✔️✔️In Zoroastrianism, the evil twin, engaged in a cosmic struggle with
Ahura Mazda.
"Both small matters and great depend upon harmony." - ✔️✔️Analects by Confucius
"But although any one attribute is sufficient to give us a knowledge of a substance, there
is always one principal property of substance which constitute its nature and essence,
and on which all others depend." - ✔️✔️Descartes
"Death is finished," - ✔️✔️When Ivan Ilych says this, he is referring to the spiritual
death that has characterized his whole life.
"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of philosophers and scholars.
Certainty, certainty, heartfelt joy, peace." - ✔️✔️Blaise Pascal
"Now what harm will befall you in taking this side? You will be faithful, honest, humble,
grateful, generous, a sincere friend, truthful." - ✔️✔️Blaise Pascal
Aquinas - ✔️✔️Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his
attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; Dominican Order; 5
proofs called "Ways'
Aquinas' Five Ways - ✔️✔️Proofs for God
1. For motion and change
2. Efficient cause
3. From possibility and necessity
4. From gradation
5. Governance
Blaise Pascal - ✔️✔️A French mathematician and scientist. He believed that religious
faith was necessary because reason alone could not satisfy peoples, hopes and
aspiration. "Religious faith better bet than atheism"; "wagers"; studied Aquinas
Death is connected to life because it forces one to make an accounting of one's life
before God. - ✔️✔️How is life connected to death in The Death of Ivan Ilyich?
Descartes - ✔️✔️(1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical geometry.
Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to spiritual
or physical. Father of modern philosophy. "Mind like Plato, Topics like Aristotle"
Descartes' 3 Categories of Substance - ✔️✔️Divine being, human being, natural being
Brahman - ✔️✔️The ultimate reality both of ourselves and of the universe; a unity
underlying all individual selves and things
Buddha - ✔️✔️Means "Enlightened One." He is said to have found a path for
overcoming suffering.
Cause and substance - ✔️✔️The two Greek Metaphysical issues
Confucius - ✔️✔️(551-479 BCE) A Chinese philosopher known also as Kong Fuzi and
created one of the most influential philosophies in Chinese history; ethics of community;
not trying to preserve traditions
Dao - ✔️✔️Confucius; the WAY/PATH
"That is this, the Self, the Inner Controller, the Immortal; valueless is anything other." -
✔️✔️Upanishads
"The learned and noble disciple...becomes divested of passion, and by the absence of
passion he becomes free." - ✔️✔️Buddha
"The reason for this transformation of concepts into symbols is the character of ultimacy
and the nature of faith." - ✔️✔️On The Ultimate Concern by Paul Tillich
"Truly, if it was once no easy thing to become a Christian, I believe now it becomes
more difficult every year, because by now it has become so easy to become one-one
who finds a little competition only in becoming a speculative philosopher." - ✔️✔️On
Subjective Truth by Soren Kierkegaard
"Where does evil come from, if God made all things and, because he is good, made
them good too?' - ✔️✔️Confessions by St. Augustine
3 Sets of Proofs for God - ✔️✔️1. Ontological
2. Cosmological
3. Teleological
Ahura Mazda - ✔️✔️In Zoroastrianism, the good god who rules the world.
Analogy of lovers - ✔️✔️Soren Kierkegaard, you do not think about being in love
logically, sometimes love doesn't make sense
, Angra Mainyu - ✔️✔️In Zoroastrianism, the evil twin, engaged in a cosmic struggle with
Ahura Mazda.
"Both small matters and great depend upon harmony." - ✔️✔️Analects by Confucius
"But although any one attribute is sufficient to give us a knowledge of a substance, there
is always one principal property of substance which constitute its nature and essence,
and on which all others depend." - ✔️✔️Descartes
"Death is finished," - ✔️✔️When Ivan Ilych says this, he is referring to the spiritual
death that has characterized his whole life.
"God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of philosophers and scholars.
Certainty, certainty, heartfelt joy, peace." - ✔️✔️Blaise Pascal
"Now what harm will befall you in taking this side? You will be faithful, honest, humble,
grateful, generous, a sincere friend, truthful." - ✔️✔️Blaise Pascal
Aquinas - ✔️✔️Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his
attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; Dominican Order; 5
proofs called "Ways'
Aquinas' Five Ways - ✔️✔️Proofs for God
1. For motion and change
2. Efficient cause
3. From possibility and necessity
4. From gradation
5. Governance
Blaise Pascal - ✔️✔️A French mathematician and scientist. He believed that religious
faith was necessary because reason alone could not satisfy peoples, hopes and
aspiration. "Religious faith better bet than atheism"; "wagers"; studied Aquinas
Death is connected to life because it forces one to make an accounting of one's life
before God. - ✔️✔️How is life connected to death in The Death of Ivan Ilyich?
Descartes - ✔️✔️(1596-1650) French philosopher, discovered analytical geometry.
Saw Algebra and Geometry have a direct relationship. Reduced everything to spiritual
or physical. Father of modern philosophy. "Mind like Plato, Topics like Aristotle"
Descartes' 3 Categories of Substance - ✔️✔️Divine being, human being, natural being
