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What is epistemology and three types viewed in class?
What is reductionism in a religious context?
Name three approaches to the study of religion mentioned in class.
What is the main difference between morals and ethics?
What is the difference between deontological and teleological normative ethics?
What is Aristotle's idea of practical ethics?
What is the concept of eudaimonia? Who fathered it?
What is Aristotle's idea of moral virtue?
What is Aristotle's view on the relationship between religion and morals?
Where and during which time period did Aristotle live?
Where and during which period did Kant live?
What were Kant's views on the enlightenment?
What is the idea of "Dare to know" and who fathered it?
Name the three books involved in Kant's critical philosophy.
What is the main idea of the "Critique of pure reason"?
What is the main idea of the "Critique of practical reason"?
What is the main idea of the "Critique of Judgement"?
What is the categorical imperative and who fathered it?
What are Kant's views on religion?
Where and during which period did Nietzsche live?
Describe the idea of "will to power" and who fathered it.
Describe the idea of "slave morality" and who fathered it.
What is Nietzsche's notion of the "superman"?
Describe myth and ritual in the context of religion.
Describe the sacred in the context of social order.
Identify and explain the concept of the sacred.
Identify and explain the concept of the holy.
What significance did historical events such as the Holocaust and Hiroshima have to concepts of the sacred and the holy?
What is the concept of Demonic Doubling?
What does it mean to have audacity on behalf of a stranger?
What are the 5 Hindu castes?
What is Samsara and what is the goal for it?
Jnana Yoga is a path to spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism, what does it entail?
Raja Yoga is a path to spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism, what does it entail?
Karma Yoga is a path to spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism, what does it entail?
Bhatki Yoga is a path to spiritual enlightenment in Hinduism, what does it entail?
What transpired in the Bhagavad Gita and what are its ethical implications for Hinduism?
Where and during which period did Mohandas Gandhi live?
What were Gandhi's views of spiritualism vs. literalism.
What was Gandhi's view of religion in relation to ethics?
What are the spiritual concepts of Satyagraha, Brahmachari and Ahisma and who fathered them?
Who is Siddartha Gautama and what was his role in Buddhism?
What is the Middle Path and how was it developed?
What is the main goal of Buddhism?
What are the four noble truths?
What does the 8-fold path consist of?
What is the difference between karma in Hinduism and Buddhism?
What is a Bohisattva?
What are some ideals of Buddhist religious ethics mentioned in class?
Who was Tich Nhat Hanh and where was be from?
What is the concept of socially engaged Buddhism and who fathered it?
What was Thich Nhat Hanh's idea of non- dualism and how does it compare to Buddhist ethics as a whole?
What was Thich Nhat Hanh's idea of an "interbeing"?
What is the basic principle of the Jewish covenant with God?
Which books of the Old Testament are the original Torah?
What was the Exodus?
What does the word "Israel" mean and how is its meaning significant within Judaism as a whole?
What is the concept of Chutzpa?
Describe Hasidism.
Name some ethical concepts in Judaism mentioned in class.
Who was Abraham Joshua Heschel?
Describe the concept of "Divine Pathos" and who fathered it?
What were some of Heschel's ethical thoughts mentioned in class?
What involvement did Heschel have in social activism during the 20th century?
Briefly describe the story of Job and identify its implications relating to larger themes throughout Judaism.
What is the faith of Christianity based around?
What is the Christian Trinity?
Describe the Christian ritual if baptism.
What is the Christian idea of Original Sin?
Identify some Christian ethics mentioned in class.
What were some ideals expressed by Jesus in the "Sermon on the Mount"
Who was Martin Luther King Jr?
What were some of King Jr's major roles in the civil rights movement?
How did spirituality affect King Jr's view of social justice.
What ideas were expressed by King Jr in his letter from Birmingham Jail?
