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• What is the aim of life in Buddhism?

  to break the cycle of rebirth by achieving nirvana
• What are the three things life is marked by

  The three marks of existence
• what is Anicca 


  the teaching that nothing lasts and everything is changing
• What is anatta 


  the teaching that there is no soul
• what is dukkha 


  refers to the suffering of life
• What do the four noble truths help u understand

  Understanding the condition of life and the way to overcome this
• What are the four noble truths?

  Life means suffering(dukkha)

  The origin of suffering is craving

  u can cease suffering if people are satisfied and understand reality and stop craving

  the path to ending suffering is the eightfold path
• What are the Noble Eightfold Paths

  Right views/understanding

  right intention

  right action

  right speech

  right livelihood

  right effort

  right mindfulness

  right contemplation
• What do the eightfold paths do

  helps reduce suffering and can also be used to achieve nirvana
• what are the five precepts

  do not lie

  no sexual misconduct

  do not kill

  no intoxicating substances

  no stealing
• Shamatha meditation


  Shamatha meditation allows us to experience our mind as it is
• why can Buddhism be considered a religion?

  narrative which are symbolic stories included in Buddhism as the Tipitaka

  rules such as the five precepts and eightfold paths which shapes a buddhists life
• why might Buddhism not be considered a religion

  they do not have a god which is considered the basic of a religion and is why it may be viewed as a spirituality
• What is Mahayana 


  The later type of buddhism which accepts the idea of supernatural buddhas called bodhisattvas who help achieve enlightenment
• what is Theravada 


  the older type of buddhism which traces its beliefs back to the first Buddhists and emphasises on achieving enlightenment
• What is empiricism 


  The theory that knowledge is gained through the senses
• rationalism 


  the theory that knowledge is gained through reason
• What is scepticism 


  the theory that certain knowledge is impossible. questioning the validity of the world around u
• what is told by the allegory of the cave

  plato distinguishes between people who mistake sensory knowledge for the truth and people who see it as the truth using many of the representations
• what does each thing mean in the allegory

  prisoners are us who believe their senses

  the cave as the illusionary world

  the shadows are what we perceive

  the world outside is the truth

  the prisoner who escapes are philosophers

  the sun is philosophical knowledge
• What are the similarities between the allegory of the cave the Truman show and the matrix?

  all three are controlled by a greater power and realise they are unaware of reality and the truth

  all demonstrate the false acceptance of the truth and when dug further there is another layer of truth

  the need to move on beyond their senses in order to gain knowledge
• what are the differences between the three

  plato‘s prisoner leaves by himself Truman is given a choice and neo is helped

  truman is the only one with experience of false truth

  neo and many others wanted to escape however the other prisoners didn’t want to
• What is radical scepticism

  Not being able to tell for sure whether we are dreaming and how we can tell we know any truth about the world we are living in
• What are the three waves of doubt

  illusion-his senses deceiving him must be rare so he accepts them as illusions

  dreaming-this attacks all of his senses

  deception-an evil demon controlling our lives making us question life and our beliefs
• What is the Turing test?


  Based on the idea that u can’t tell the difference between a human and a computer when speaking to them then the computer is intelligent and can think
• what is specieism 


  Giving preference to our own species over than any other species
• what separates us from animals?

  free will a soul language morality religious beliefs and intelligence
• why can humans be considered more valuable

  In Christianity only humans have souls and are more valuable and according to aristotle humans possess more rationality and have the ability to reason setting them apart and humans have capacity for higher level thinking and motel reasoning
• What virtues are important to stoics 


  Practical wisdom temperance justice and courage
• core beliefs of stoicism

  virtue tolerance and self control
• what is stoicism 


  an Ancient Greek philosophy laid down by zeno teaching that wise people live in harmony with reason and are indifferent to outcomes of pleasure and pain
• what is transhumanism


  the belief that humans can evolve its current physical mental limitations