Emergence of an Independent Secular Value System (Leaving Cert Religious Education): Flashcards
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Secular value system definition
Secular value system definition
Built on human ideals & philosophy, not religious beliefs
Foundation of secular value systems
Foundation of secular value systems
Reason and human experience
3 key periods of secular value development
3 key periods of secular value development
Renaissance, Enlightenment, 20th-century existentialism
Meaning of 'Renaissance'
Meaning of 'Renaissance'
'Rebirth' in French
Renaissance time period
Renaissance time period
14th-16th centuries
Renaissance humanism's main focus
Renaissance humanism's main focus
Human nature & capabilities as centre of attention
What Renaissance valued above all else
What Renaissance valued above all else
Human reason
Enlightenment time period
Enlightenment time period
17th-18th centuries
What Enlightenment established
What Enlightenment established
Human rights as independent, non-religious value system
French Revolution motto
French Revolution motto
Liberty, Equality & Fraternity
Existentialism's starting point for all knowledge
Existentialism's starting point for all knowledge
The fact of your existence
Key existentialist philosophers (name 2)
Key existentialist philosophers (name 2)
Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche
Sartre's famous quote about freedom
Sartre's famous quote about freedom
'Man was condemned to be free'