AP Language - Vocab #7 - Key "Isms" 2 (From "Crash Course") - Due 11/4 Flashcards
Terms : Hide Images [1]
| 4707362647 | egalitarianism | The doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality. | 0 | |
| 4707362648 | egoism | An ethical system defining acceptable behavior as that which maximizes consequences for the individual. | 1 | |
| 4707362649 | empiricism | The doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | 2 | |
| 4707362650 | existentialism | A philosophy based on the idea that people give meaning to their lives through their choices and actions | 3 | |
| 4707362651 | Fascism | A 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 | |
| 4707362652 | fatalism | The belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control. | 5 | |
| 4707362653 | feminism | A movement or doctrine that advocates or demands for women the same rights granted men, such as equal economic or political status. | 6 | |
| 4707362654 | gnosticism | A 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 | |
| 4707362655 | hedonism | An ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good. | 8 | |
| 4707362656 | humanism | A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements. | 9 | |
| 4707362657 | imperalism | The policy by which strong nations extend control over weaker territories | 10 | |
| 4707362658 | individualism | A cultural orientation in which independence, autonomy, and self-reliance take priority over group allegiances. | 11 | |
| 4707362659 | libertarianism | An 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 | |
| 4707362660 | Marxism | The 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 | |
| 4707362661 | materialism | The philosophical theory that matter is the only reality. | 14 | |
| 4707362662 | monotheism | The belief or theory of one god. | 15 | |
| 4707362663 | nihilism | A philosophy that promotes an active destruction of conventional rules and conventional societal structures | 16 |