University of Phoenix Material Essay

Epistemology is the investigation into the grounds and nature of knowledge. Found in the 1800’s From Old Greece forward, Plato, Socrates, and developmental ideas. Rationalism means the knowledge can be acquired through the use of reason and empiricism is obtained through experience. Externalism, empiricism, constructivism, and etc. Rene Descartes Immanuel Kant Aristotle Plato Locke Berkeley Spinoza The kind of knowledge of how can we know what we know, the reason why? How is knowledge got? Metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and fundamental properties of being. Idea owed to Aristotle. In Greece Realism Idealism Materialism Dualism Monism Aristotle Aquinas Locke Kant Plato Berkeley Hobbes Descartes Leibniz Spinoza What is being? What are its fundamental features and properties? Is there a God? Do people really have free will? Moral Moral is the philosophical study of moral judgments and value judgments about what is virtuous, just or unjust, morally right or wrong and etc. It is the area of philosophy concerned with how we should live our lives. Idea owed to the Sophists. In Greece, forward to Socrates, Plato Skepticism Relativism Subjectivism Egoism Hedonism Epicureanism Stoicism Plato Aesara Aristotle Aquinas Berkeley Hobbes Hume Kant Moore What is being a moral? What is moral judgment? What is good or evil? Social Social is the philosophical study of society and its institutions. Greece Individualism Criticism Modernism Postmodernism Marx Hegel Who gets what? Political Political seeks to find the best form of political existence, it is concerned with determining the states right to exist and ethically proper organization. Greece Communism Marxism Anarchism Liberalism Capitalism Utilitarianism Plato Aristotle Augustine Aquinas Hobbes Locke Taylor Mill Smith Marx Berkeley Ought all people equal in freedom? Ought all people equal in citizenship? Should there be a state? Structuralism Structuralism is a methodology that seeks to find the underlying rules and conventions governing large social systems such as language or cultural mythology. Greece Structuralism Poststructuralism Criticism Fuctionalism Mauss Jakobson Saussure Derrida Kant Hobbes Berkeley Locke Is it trus? Deconstruction Deconstruction is a form of semiotic analysis, derived mainly from French philosopher Jacques 1967 work of Grammology. Greece Criticism Deconstructionism Structuralism Logocentrism Berkeley Locke Hobbes Hume Eastern Greece Plato Hobbes Berkeley Hume Kant Postcolonial Feminism Feminist philosophy refers to philosophy approached from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy involves both attempts to use the methods of philosophy to further the cause of the feminist movements Greece Directions: Complete the entire matrix and then write a 350- to 500-word response for each of the following questions: What is one example of how the global integration of cultures has affected contemporary philosophical thinking? Describe how the global integration of cultures, including Eastern metaphysical influences, has affected contemporary philosophical thinking. Cite at least one example and explain its effects on contemporary philosophical thinking. How has contemporary philosophical thinking been effected by Eastern metaphysical influences and other examples of the global integration of cultures? Cite at least one example and explain its effects on contemporary philosophical thinking.