Class,

I found that I couldn’t use my Google Doc in Des Moines because our system blocks it.  The network here isn’t recognized, so our system things its dangerous.  I’m sorry about that as I made a short video, and now I can’t send it to you.  Below is a very quick review for you.  Still, to do well you need to study everything we did!


There are 12 multiple guess, and five short answer in the closed part.  Then there’s 4 essay questions.  Know the philosophies, and how to compare and contrast them and you will be okay.


Buddhism:
-Know the main points:
-People suffer from all walks of life
-suffering is caused by “attachment” – this is usually material attachment – to
              “things” but it can be more than that.
-There is a cure for suffering
-It is the eight-way path (in your book)

-Karma:  Your current decisions predict your future outcome.  Good living in the “middle way” leads to good karma.

-Know the story of Siddhartha Gautama


Stoicism:
-An ordered universe controlled by fate (determinism)
-Logos describes how everything is in order for a purpose
-Was the philosophy of the Roman Empire for hundreds of years.
-Stoics were the mainstream of Roman society, but there were also fatalists who
              felt that everything was so fated that nothing mattered.
-There are also other types of determinism –

-psychological:  - Your upbringing and your environment determines your
 actions

-Economic:  Class system (India has the Caste system) Where money
 determines much of your choices

-Scientific Determinism:  DNA and science.  We are like big machines,
 and if you could know everything about our brains you could determine
 our actions.  


Existentialism:  The idea that we are completely responsible for our actions and our
                          future, and that fate plays must less of a role if any.

-Theistic:  Kierkegaard – a “few things” are selected/elected to occur, but
                         we create the rest.  In this, essence still precedes existence.

-Athestic:  Sartre’ – nothing is selected/elected.  People are totally
                          responsible for their outcome.  Everyone is completely free, and freedom
  can be a  burdon.


Hedonism:  The idea that pleasure matters and has purpose:
Cyrenic:  Physical pleasure without guild, the more the better
Epicurean:  Controlled pleasure – considering the outcome
:ataraxia:  lack of physical pain and mental anguish
: know the difference between a kinetic and a static pleasure.
-Kinetic, diminishes with return – mostly physical – glass of
                                                 water on a hot day
-Static – stays the same always such as justice, or freedom