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🤔Intro to Philosophy
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290 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your Intro to Philosophy exam

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A

A Posteriori
A Priori
A Priori Knowledge
Absurdism
Advaita Vedanta
Al-Farabi
Alasdair MacIntyre
Albert Camus
Algorithmic Bias
Allegorical Interpretation
Amphiboly
Analytic Philosophy
Apology
Aristotelian Ethics
Aristotelian Eudaimonism
Aristotelianism
Aristotle
Artificial Intelligence Ethics
Ataraxia
Auguste Comte
Augustine

B

Base and Superstructure
Begging the Question
Bhagavad Gita
Biological Continuity Theory
Bodily Autonomy
Brain in a Vat
Brain-in-a-Vat Hypothesis

C

Care Ethics
Carol Gilligan
Cartesian Doubt
Categorical Imperative
Chan Buddhism
Chinese Room Argument
Christian Neoplatonism
Class Consciousness
Class Struggle
Climate Justice
Cognitive Bias
Coherentism
Collective Consciousness
Commodity Fetishism
Communitarianism
Confucian Ethics
Confucian Virtues
Contextualism
Cosmopolitanism
Counterexample Method
Critical Theory
Culpability
Cultural Hegemony
Culture Industry
Cynicism

D

Darwinism
Dasein
David Hume
Deep Ecology
Descartes
Dialectical Materialism
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Différance
Distributive Justice
Divine Attributes
Divine Command Theory
Double Truth
Dualism
Dukkha
Dvaita

E

Eastern Philosophy
Edmund Husserl
Eightfold Path
Either/Or Fallacy
Eliminative Materialism
Emotivism
Enrique Dussel