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Leucippus & Democritus
world is made up of atoms and change is determined by the necessary motions of them
Pythagoras
--reality is made out of numbers
--numbers are non physical
--ascetic=self denying or self-punishing
nihilism
view that either nothing exists or the view that nothing deserves to exist, or the wish for destruction
relativism
the view that there are no absolute values; all values relative to time, place, and culture. In epistemology, this is the view that there are no absolute truths; all truths are relative to time, place, and culture.
atheism
claim that there are no gods or god
reductionism
showing that an object that appears to be one kind of thing can really be reduced to more basic kind of thing
naturalism
explaining natural phenomena by means of natural phenomena
determinism
the belief that there exists no freedom only necessity
materialism
the substance is matter, physical
pluralism
belief that reality is made up of more than one kind of substance, "stuff"
monism
believing that there is only one substance in reality; only on kind of "stuff"
logos
explains worldly things by use of reason
mythos
explaining worldly things by tracing them to exceptional, sometimes sacred events that caused the world to be as it is now.
ethics/moral philosophy
the study of right behavior or character/
metaphysics
investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science
aesthetics
the study of values of art and beauty
logic
the study of the rules of argumentation; study of proper inferences
axiology
the stufy of values
ontology
the study of being; study of what is real
epistemology
the study of knowledge and truth
philosophy
love of wisdom
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