Theory Vocab
...moral; especially sexual restraint 5. Ethical hedonism- a doctrine that as to what entities possess intrinsic value. According to it pleasure or pleasant consciousness, and this alone, has positive ultimate value, that is, intrinsically good and has no parts or constituents, which are not intrinsically good. 6. Psychological hedonism- Theory that psychological motivation is to be explained exclusively in terms of desire for pleasure and aversion from pain. 7. Antipathy- a strong aversion or repugnance 8. Existential philosophy- determine the worth of knowledge not in relation to truth but according to its biological value contained in the pure data of consciousness when unaffected by emotions, volitions, and social prejudices. 9. Empiricism- a proposition about the sources of knowledge: that the sole source of knowledge: that the sole source of knowledge is experience; or that either no knowledge at all or no knowledge with the existential reference is possible independently of experience. 10. Radical empiricism- the theory of knowledge, which holds that ideas are reducible to sensations. The doctrine that experience is the final criterion of reality in knowledge. 11. Apodictic knowledge- knowledge of what must occur, as opposed to knowledge of what might occur or is capable of occurring, or what is actual or occurring. 12. Didactic- the branch of education concerned with methods of teaching and instruction. In theology and religion didactics in contradistinction to catechetic, is instruction in fundamentals of religious doctrine. 13. Eudaemonism- Theory that the aim of right action is personal well-being or happiness. 14. Nietzsche, Frederich- Nietzsche’s discovery and description of “re...