Blue Sheet

Appeals to human reasoning and emphasizes truths that are logical, unchanging, and permanent.

• Idealism

• Postmodernism

• Realism

• Neo-Scholasticism

Education should teach things that are practical and will be used in life.

• Empiricism

• Pragmatism

• Existentialism

• Realism

We make ourselves. There is no external authority. People make their own truth. Individualism.

• Progressivism

• Essentialism

• Existentialism

• Behaviorism

Create diversity. Control the schools/the minds and you control the world.

• Perennialism

• Humanism

• Essentialism

• Postmodernism

Imagination touched with conviction---not entirely a reliable source of knowing.

• Ontology

• Intuition

• Revelation

• Ethics

This goes beyond the sense. We need logical support.

• Intuition

• Ethics

• Reason

• Cosmology

The theory that all knowledge is derived from sense---experiences. It was simulated by the rise

• Ontology

• Cosmology

• Teleology

• Empiricism

Studies the nature of existence (Is reality found in matter, physical energy, spirit, spiritual energy, composed of one element, fixed or changing, friendly, etc.?)

• Ontology

• Cosmology

• Teleology

• Axiology

Asks specifically about the origin, nature, and development of the universe as an orderly system.

• Ontology

• Cosmology

• Epistemology

• Teleology

The reality of thoughts, ideas, and minds, or selves instead of objects and other materialistic things.

• Neo-Scholasticism

• Pragmatism

• Idealism

• Realism