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What Greek school of philosophy believed in reincarnation depending on one's virtue in life, and that planetary motions produce a "music of the spheres." ?
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Which Greek school of philosophy believed that change was illusory, and created paradoxes to support this view (the most famous of these created by Zeno)? |
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Which Greek philosophy advocated that the goal of human life was to achieve the maximum amount of pleasure. The pleasure it emphasised was that which brought peace of mind, such as intellectual pleasure and freedom from fear of death and the afterlife. |
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What medieval philosophical and theological movement sought to reconcile Greek thought with religious faith? |
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Which philosophy emphasises that all knowledge is based on experience, and denies the possibility of innate ideas?
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What philosophy emphasises the role of reason in obtaining knowledge, taking the opposite view to empiricism? |
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This philosophy dominated late 19th c American philosophy. It continued the empiricist tradition and stated that truth is the capacity of a belief to guide one to a successful action. |
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This 19th century theory stated that human progress depended on struggle and competition and that poverty was due to inferiority. It justified unrestrained economic development, lack of aid for poor, and racism. |
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This philosophical school of thought was developed in the University of Chicago. It considered thought as a method of meeting challenges, particularly new challenges where one is unable to fall back on habitual or innate reactions. |
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Analytic Philosophy is the logical study of concepts, and Synthetic Philosophy is the arrangement of concepts into a unified system.
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