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AP Language - Vocab #7 - Key "Isms" 2 (From "Crash Course") - Due 11/4 Flashcards

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4707362647egalitarianismThe doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality.0
4707362648egoismAn ethical system defining acceptable behavior as that which maximizes consequences for the individual.1
4707362649empiricismThe doctrine that knowledge derives from experience2
4707362650existentialismA philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions3
4707362651FascismA governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.4
4707362652fatalismThe belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control.5
4707362653feminismA movement or doctrine that advocates or demands for women the same rights granted men, such as equal economic or political status.6
4707362654gnosticismA group of ancient religions, some of them closely related to Christianity, that maintained that elements of the divine had become entrapped in this evil world of matter and could be released only when they acquired the secret gnosis (knowledge) of who they were and of how they could escape. This knowledge was generally thought to be brought by an emissary of the divine realm.7
4707362655hedonismAn ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good.8
4707362656humanismA Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements.9
4707362657imperalismThe policy by which strong nations extend control over weaker territories10
4707362658individualismA cultural orientation in which independence, autonomy, and self-reliance take priority over group allegiances.11
4707362659libertarianismAn ideology that cherishes individual liberty and insists on minimal government, promoting a free market economy, a noninterventionist foreign policy, and an absence of regulation in moral, economic, and social life.12
4707362660MarxismThe economic and political theories of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that hold that human actions and institutions are economically determined and that class struggle is needed to create historical change and that capitalism will untimately be superseded.13
4707362661materialismThe philosophical theory that matter is the only reality.14
4707362662monotheismThe belief or theory of one god.15
4707362663nihilismA philosophy that promotes an active destruction of conventional rules and conventional societal structures16

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