Empiricism

Britiain leaned toward empiricism, common law.

Hume

David Hume Wrote [[Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding]] Wrote a History of England Bkgrd Info 1711-1776 Scottish studi...

Socrates

Socrates Beliefs of the Sophists abandoning the mythical religions appeal to just reason found it futile to seek absolute truth ...

Romanticism

Romanticism Proponents [[Schopenhauer]] [[Hegel]] Lecture Notes (Dewberry) Introduction Romanticism is very difficult to defin...

Anglicanism

Anglicanism esp during 1600s-ish embraced ceremony/ritual & harmless pleasures on Sabbath tradition/pope/bishops establish rel...

Enlightenment

Enlightenment 17th & 18th century church authorities challenged free gov, free religion key players: [[Bacon]], [[Descartes]...

Epistemology

Epistemology how should epistemology change how I live?

German Idealism

German Idealism Members Fichte [[Hegel]] Schelling Spinoza Schleiermacher [[Schopenhauer]] Map of 19th Century Philosophe...

Ideal Theory

Ideal theory Everything in the mind is impressions & ideas - Hume Hume's skepticism is a natural result of this ^ idea. Ideal ...

Logical Positivism

Logical Positivism Summary

Naturalism

Naturalism Nature exists and works in accordance w/ rules & laws. Our goal is to find the most basic underlying rules & laws.

Pragmatism

Pragmatism Notes a claim is true if and only if it is useful experience has to do with your transactions w/ nature, rather than repr...

Puritanism

Puritanism Beliefs predestination doctrine & practice comes from Bible stern, godly morality wanted to reduce power of bish...

Rationalism

Rationalism Do atheism/agnosticism & rationalism go hand in hand? Why do we assume reason to be more trustworthy than experience?

Scholastidcism

Scholasticism c. 1200-1600 Fitting together Aristotle, and the church tradition Thomas [[Aquinas]] was a major influencer This movemen...

Skepticism

Skepticism Skepticism is a valid, and helpful thing. [[The Chastity of the Intellect]] Skeptical of what? - meta-narratives? -...