CGS SS 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pyrrhonism, Christian Humanism, Renaissance Humanism
18 Dec 2016
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Social science final exam final exam study guide: Id section: 10 of the following will appear on the final. You will identify 5, and explain the significance of each. (each answer will be worth 10 points) Is the roman philosopher whose name is given to empiricism. Empiricism looking at evidence through the world around you/ sensory observation, rather than books. Actually look at nature to try to understand. The best account we have of pyrrhonian skepticism (a kind of skepticism named for pyrrho) Pyrrhonian skepticism: having no beliefs about philosophical, scientific, or theoretical matters or having no beliefs at all. The augustinian worldview is discussed with worldly life (cid:840)(cid:873)we are born between urine and feces(cid:874)(cid:841) Explanation that the city of man is corrupt but the city of god is in heaven. Was the catholic bishop of hippo in northern africa. He was a skilled roman-trained rhetorician, a prolific writer, and the first christian philosopher.
