Branch of philosophy which deals with the fundamental questions of reality.

The investigation into what types of things there are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another.

Branch of philosophy which deals with our concept of knowledge, how we learn, and what we can know.

Branch of philosophy which is concerned with human values and how individuals should act.

Branch of philosophy which deals with the notion of beauty and the philosophy of art.

Branch of philosophy which studies the concepts of liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority.

Study of reasoning, or the study of the principles and criteria of valid inference and demonstration, attempts to distinguish good reasoning from bad reasoning.

Moves from specific premises to a general conclusion - requires several pieces of evidence to form a generalized conclusion

Moves from a general truth to a more specific conclusion

It is the importance of free individual choice regardless of the power of the people to influence and coerce our desires, beliefs, and decisions

Examines objects by abstraction and analytically deconstructs ideas into its constituent parts

Reconstruction of events to create the "bigger picture" and integrates all that has transpired to share it into learnings.

A method of inquiry that assesses a person’s self.

"Athens' street-corner Philosopher"

"Athens' street-corner Philosopher"

Famous for creating the Socratic Method of Teaching

"The Philosopher who would be King"

A Plato's famous treatise that's states " a philosopher should be a king "

Known as a peripatetic philosopher and famous philosophy "A Long walk to the Golden Mean"

Known as a peripatetic philosopher and famous philosophy "A Long walk to the Golden Mean"

Proposed that the whole Universe was composed of different forms of water

Proposed that the whole Universe was made of air

- Proposed that the whole Universe was made of fire

Proposed that the whole Universe was made from an unexplainable substance usually translated as "the infinite" or "the boundless"

He believed that all of reality was governed by Mathematics

Argued that motion is an illusion

Best known for his Ten Paradoxes: Achilles and the Tortoise, Dichotomy paradox, and Arrow paradox

Best known for his Ten Paradoxes: Achilles and the Tortoise, Dichotomy paradox, and Arrow paradox

Proposed that everything is made up of the four (4) classical elements

Proposed the theory of the atomos

The study of causation or origination.

An unchanging essence of a thing, which exists by itself and has attributes and modes that may change

It is a form of communication driven by causation

It is a thing, an entity, or a being that can have properties and bear relations to other purposes

It is a thing as it appears to be, as constructed by the mind and perceived by the senses

Philosophers believe the ________ as any material object is with our perception, though its actual philosophical definition concerning the soul/mind is in question.

It is the position that mind and body are in some definite way separate from each other. That mental phenomena are, in some respects, non-physical.

The metaphysical and theological view that all is one, that there are no fundamental divisions, and that a unified set of laws underlie all of nature.

The term _________ itself is relatively recent, first used by the 18th-century German philosopher Christian von Wolff

In the 17th century, he was the first to develop the mind-body problem.

The term "monism" itself is relatively recent, first used by the 18th-century German philosopher ___________________

Human-centered point of view

Nature-centered point of view

Also know as humanocentrism

One of the methods of philosophizing, it is the conviction that all philosophies have some significant structure which, when analyzed, provides the philosopher’s motives.

It focuses on careful inspection and description of phenomena and defines it as any object of conscious experience (things that we are aware of).

Other term for Ethics

Philos means______

Sophos means______