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    This document contains summaries of key concepts from Eastern and Western philosophy: 1. Right concentration addresses developing mental focus for awareness in Buddhism. Brahman is the ultimate reality in Hinduism. Maya refers to illusion in Hinduism. 2. Necessary being is what exists not dependent on other things for Aquinas. Faith allows for knowing for Augustine. Pascal's Wager is a statistical argument for God's existence. 3. Nothingness is characteristic of human consciousness for Sartre. Bad faith is blaming others for one's wrong acts. Humans become being-in-itself by abandoning pour soi for en soi.

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    This document contains summaries of key concepts from Eastern and Western philosophy: 1. Right concentration addresses developing mental focus for awareness in Buddhism. Brahman is the ultimate reality in Hinduism. Maya refers to illusion in Hinduism. 2. Necessary being is what exists not dependent on other things for Aquinas. Faith allows for knowing for Augustine. Pascal's Wager is a statistical argument for God's existence. 3. Nothingness is characteristic of human consciousness for Sartre. Bad faith is blaming others for one's wrong acts. Humans become being-in-itself by abandoning pour soi for en soi.

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    LO7

    1. This stage of Buddha's Eightfold path addresses the developing of mental focus
    necessary for awareness.=right concentration
    2. It is the sole reality, for it is the metaphysical unity which is manifested in all
    empirical plurality.=atman
    3. It specifically refers to the illusion superimposed upon reality as an effect of
    ignorance.=Maya
    4. Which Eastern philosophical system highlights the Four Noble Truths which are
    Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, and Magga?=Buddhism
    5. It is the ultimate reality; the supreme reality which transcends all things and yet
    underlies all things as the ground of all things.=brahman
    6. What is the oldest extant literary works of the Aryan mind which means "knowledge"
    in Sanskrit.=vedas
    7. From Buddha's Eightfold path, this stage indicates cultivating positive states of mind;
    freeing oneself from evil and unwholesome states and preventing them arising in
    future.=right effort
    8. Which is not true about Nirvana?=someone who reaches nirvana
    9. Which Eastern philosophical system highlights the inner man and his reality?
    =Hinduism
    10. The three roots of evil according to Buddhism are the following, EXCEPT:=Lust and
    craving

    LO8

    1. Since all existent things depend upon other things for their existence, there must
    exist at least one thing that is not dependent and so is a ______.=necessary being

    2. According to Augustine, _______ allows for the very possibility of knowing.=faith


    3. The Wager, which was formulated by Blaise Pascal, is a ______ of God=statistical
    and probability
    The Five Ways formulated by Aquinas, which is meant to be a proof for the existence
    of God, argues by:=necessary beginning
    5. What was the greatest contribution of Augustine to the history of Philosophy and
    Theology?=plato to a Christian framework
    6. Hegel posits ______ in order to formulate a system of thought meant to explain all
    of reality?=geist
    7. This being than which no greater can be conceived is:=God
    8. For Blaise Pascal, despite his rational Wager, he believes that without ______, life
    would lose its value.=The heart
    9. The Ontological Argument formulated by Anselm, which is meant to be a proof for
    the existence of God, argues by:=highest and perfect being
    10. In the Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky, Ivan says he wants to return the ticket of
    his to God. Why?=he is going to commit suicide

    4.

    LO9
    1. What is characteristic of human consciousness?=nothingness
    2. Jean-Paul Sartre calls it ______ when we put the blame on other people or outside
    circumstances whenever we commit wrong acts.=bad faith

    3. Human beings are pour soi, or being-for-itself, but becomes en soi, or being beingin-itself, when:=when we abandon

    4. Hegel posits ______ in order to formulate a system of thought meant to explain all
    of reality?= geist
    5. What was the greatest contribution of Augustine to the history of Philosophy and
    Theology?=plato to a Christian framework

    6. According to Augustine, _______ allows for the very possibility of knowing.=faith

    LO10
    1. Utilitarian ethics is often criticized because it undermines:=the uniqueness of man
    2. A philosophical worldview which emphasizes equality and liberty among
    men=liberalism
    3. The benefit of an ethics as proposed by Nietzsche is that it is:=all of the answrs
    4. In ethics, that right action consists solely in the conformity of an action to a justified
    rule or principle is called:=deontological ethics
    5. According to Rawls, Justice can only be formed only within a hypothetical contract,
    essentially characterized by:=the veil
    6. Bentham felt that it was not useful to involve legislature or societal constraints
    on:=private masters
    7. Nietzsche said that God is dead because:=the concept of god

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