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If You Get 10/15 On This Test You Must Be A Philosopher

Descartes said it in his _Discourse on the Method_. In Latin, it's "cogito ergo sum".

Plato was one of Socrates' students, and Aristotle was one of Plato's students.

Mind-body dualism, or Cartesian dualism, was developed by Descartes.

Utilitarians think that you should aim to create the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people.

"Tabula rasa" is the idea that people are born without in-built mental content; everything we know is learnt through experience.

Compatibalists think that even if all of our actions are pre-determined, we are able to possess and exercise free will.

For Nietzche, the Übermensch is a superior man who justifies the existence of the human race.

An argument stemming from the problem of evil may try to deny that an all-loving, all-powerful, all-knowing God can exist given that there is so much suffering in the world.

_The Republic_ defines justice and looks at the relationship between the city-state and man.

St Thomas Aquinas espoused the cosmological argument.

"A priori" knowledge exists before experience, e.g the laws of mathematics. "A posteriori" knowledge depends on experience, e.g. personal knowledge.

Deontological theory goes back to Jeremy Bentham.

It's a quote from _A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge_.

Socrates said it, and it’s quoted in Plato’s _Apology_.

You are not a philosopher. You may have had some philosophical musings in your time, but you're certainly not a professional.

You're not really a philosopher. You talk about ethics with your friends from time to time but that's as far as it goes.

You are a bit of a philosopher! You have ethical debates with your friends all the time and you always keep to date with politics. You're pretty impressive.

You're a bona fide philosopher. You remember all the stuff you learnt at school and you still engage in ethical debates with your friends now. You're very impressive.

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If You Get 10/15 On This Test You Must Be A Philosopher

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