Philosophical Concepts and Thinkers: Key Tenets

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Philosophical Currents and Core Beliefs

  • Currents that reject vitalism, rationalism, and positivism.
  • The eternal law of St. Thomas: God's design imprinted on nature and all beings as natural law, compelling them toward their purposes in the world.
  • Marxist ideology: Power exerted on the consciousness of the proletariat to accept its secondary position, allowing the bourgeoisie to exploit and maintain domain.
  • The Common Good: St. Thomas Aquinas considers the common good to be collective.
  • Decadence of Art: From Nietzsche, the author begins the decadence of art with Euripides.
  • Historical Reasoning Resources: Analysis of biography, theory of generations, and understanding different historical periods.
  • Current theology and philosophy are explained by idealism.

Plato's Forms of Government

  • Monarchy
  • Timocracy (Tirocracia corrected)
  • Oligarchy
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny

Representatives of Positivism

  • Auguste Comte

Key Philosophical Questions and Answers

  • Which philosopher maintains there is a law of nature? Nietzsche.
  • What are the axiological order conditions for St. Augustine? Causes matching each other; the order of values.
  • What categories does Nietzsche deny in his anthology? Substance, causation, soul.
  • In what does St. Paul agree with Stoic philosophy? The recognition of natural law and the affirmation of the equality of all men before God's grace.
  • What is Ortega's model for the exercise of reason? An operation in which a segment of reality is analyzed.
  • Main Representatives of Utopian Socialism: Robert Owen, Charles Fourier, Henri Saint-Simon.
  • Which author believes logic is a human intention? Nietzsche.
  • Representatives of Vitalism: Nietzsche, Spengler, Toynbee, Schopenhauer, Henri Bergson.
  • What characterizes Marx's socialist stage? Characterized by great development of means of production and social wealth to be administered by a permanent democratic state.
  • Which author believes all human beings are equal before divine grace? St. Paul.
  • Which author believes the system of governance is extrinsic? St. Thomas Aquinas.

Representatives of Idealism

  • Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel.

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