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| 7990401847 | St. Paul | Christian convert who spread Christianity to Greece and philosophical Athens | 0 | |
| 7990368337 | Claim | In supporting a thesis, the writer makes smaller versions of these, generally supported in a paragraph. A warrant is the glue that holds an argument together. It links the evidence to this. | 1 | |
| 7990368338 | Strategy | tool author uses to create an effect on the audience | 2 | |
| 7990372212 | Cynical | believing that people are motivated by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity; suspicious of society's accepted morals | 3 | |
| 7990374043 | Dangling Participle | intended to modify a noun that is not actually present in the text | 4 | |
| 7990384820 | Tragedy | branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual. | 5 | |
| 7990387127 | Footnote | an ancillary piece of information printed at the bottom of a page. | 6 | |
| 7990387128 | Endnote | an ancillary piece of information printed at the end of a page. | 7 | |
| 7990389184 | Circular Reasoning | a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with | 8 | |
| 7990393961 | Synthesis | takes a unique viewpoint about a central idea, theme, or topic, and backs it up with a combination of multiple sources. | 9 | |
| 7990393962 | Hellenism | epoch or period of time and culture where Greek ideas prevailed in the thee kingdoms of Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt | 10 | |
| 7990393963 | Alexander the Great | General famous for spreading Greek philosophy out of Greece and through the known world | 11 | |
| 7990398860 | Cynics | Athenian philosophers that emphasized true happiness is not found in luxuries | 12 | |
| 7990398861 | Stoics | believed everyone was part of the same common sense (logos) and natural law governed mankind; therefore we should what we can to be in tune with it; big believers in necessity | 13 | |
| 7990398862 | Epicures | believed pleasure the highest good (equated it with happiness) | 14 | |
| 7990401651 | Plotinus | philosopher from Alexandria who revived Plato and believed the soul is illuminated by some central burning source, a "One." | 15 | |
| 7990401650 | Mystics | believe there can be moments where there is no gulf between man and the divine, where people can merge with God | 16 | |
| 7990406664 | St. Augustine | Roman convert to Christianity who liked and combined Plato with Christianity; wrote City of God | 17 | |
| 7990406665 | Empirical Method | It is a way of gaining knowledge by means of direct and indirect observation or experience | 18 | |
| 7990410698 | Thomas Aquinas | Medieval Christian scholar, theologian, and philosopher who combined Aristotle and Christianity; tried to marry faith and reason | 19 | |
| 7990423559 | Renaissance | rebirth of classical cultural; big fans of humanism | 20 | |
| 7990423560 | Reformation | 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches; upended known European order | 21 | |
| 7990427135 | Humanism | an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters; obsessed with possibility, potential | 22 | |
| 7990427136 | Galileo | central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution; formulated laws of interia | 23 | |
| 7990429366 | Luther | German professor of theology, composer, priest, and monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. | 24 | |
| 7990429367 | Baroque | epoch defined by violent extremes, faith and reason, simplicity and complexity. | 25 | |
| 7990431964 | Mechanistic | theories that explain phenomena in purely physical or deterministic terms or doctrine that holds natural processes (as of life) can be explained by the laws of physics and chemistry | 26 | |
| 7990431965 | Determinism | the idea that every event is necessitated by antecedent events and conditions together with the laws of nature | 27 | |
| 7990434485 | Leibniz | founder of Calculus said you can't divide a thought in two | 28 | |
| 7990437492 | Dualism | the view that there are just two mutually irreducible substances. (Body/Soul) | 29 | |
| 7990437493 | Descartes | Famous dualist; wrote Discourse on Method; used doubt to start philosophy over | 30 | |
| 7990443959 | Spinoza | Famous monist; laid groundwork for Enlightenment; associated with pantheism; determinist view of the natural world | 31 | |
| 7990443960 | Monism | any of various theories holding that there is only one basic substance or principle as the ground of reality, or that reality consists of a single element. | 32 | |
| 8309302822 | Sub specie aeternitatis | Spinoza's motto; from the perspective of eternity | 33 | |
| 8309334853 | Life is a dream | Baroque obsession; favorite Shakespeare theme | 34 | |
| 8309342244 | Butterfly dreaming | Emperor awake | 35 | |
| 8309344854 | Angels dancing on the head of a pin | Scornful description of a tedious obsession with irrelevant details | 36 | |
| 8309366120 | mathos pathei | through suffering comes knowledge | 37 | |
| 8309374834 | Flibbertigibbet | One of Harsnett's demons; today, a person who chatters too much | 38 | |
| 8309399548 | Best song we played so far this year and most song effective strategy | Your answer____________(Bonus points) | 39 | |
| 8309428678 | Fortune's Wheel | Medieval and philosophical (ancient) understanding of fate and change; fate is capricious | 40 | |
| 8309665868 | Manichean | A dualistic religious system with Christian, Gnostic, and pagan elements. The system was based on a supposed primeval conflict between light and darkness. It spread widely in the Roman Empire and in Asia, and survived in eastern Turkestan (Xinjiang) until the 13th century. Today means religious or philosophical dualism. | 41 | |
| 8309694697 | Cluster | Method of synthesizing various sources to ensure a conversation between sources in each supporting paragraph | 42 |
