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Metaphysics
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- 1Common-sense RealismA theory which states that what people perceive under ordinary conditions, using their 5 senses to experience objects, is the most legitimate reality.
- 2IdealistA person who believes that reality consists of ideas and the minds that house them.
- 3Platonic RealismThis theory states that reality consists of ultimate ideal forms or ideas that are timeless, unchanging and more perfect than the everyday perceptive world of changeable things.
- 4MaterialismThe belief that everything is physical and everything is a material phenomenon.
- 5MonismThis theory states that reality consists of one single thing which all particular things are copies or manifestations of. This all-encompassing thing may be material or mental.
(Baruch Spinoza said it might be divine) - 6DualismThis theory states that reality consists of 2 fundamentally different things: mind and matter, and are capable of interacting.
(Rene Descartes) - 7Substance TheoryThis theory maintains that the self is a determinate and unitary thing that persists over time, cannot decompose or change, supports change and owns all experiences, but cannot change itself.
(Rene Descartes) - 8Bundle TheoryThis theory maintains that the self is a collection of bits and pieces of experience, a bundle of perceptions which one cannot understand because they will encounter fleeting ideas and vague thoughts.
(David Hume) - 9Narrative TheoryThis theory maintains that the self is defined by narrative structure and unity, guided by a story in which new tales can be told and old ones retold or dropped.
(Paul Ricoeur) - 10Project TheoryThis theory maintains that the self is temporal, an event in time which is defined by a dynamic and future-oriented project. Feelings, desires, thoughts and behaviours are the expression of a single fundamental project.
(Jean-Paul Sartre)
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