Every term in the course
Glossary
All the key terms from the lectures, in alphabetical order. Each one points to the lecture where it is explained.
15 terms
C
- Care for the soul
- In Patočka, after Socrates and Plato: living by examining your life and seeking the truth.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
- Christianitas
- Medieval Christendom: the community of Christian peoples, a religious identity, not a geographical one.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
- Council of Europe
- An organisation of 46 states for human rights and democracy, founded in 1949. The European Court of Human Rights belongs to it.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
E
- Essentially contested concept
- A concept whose meaning is always disputed, the dispute being part of its life (W. B. Gallie).Example: democracy, justice, “Europe”.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
- European state
- A condition for joining the EU (Art. 49 TEU) that the Treaty does not define.Example: Morocco, rejected in 1987.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
- European Union
- A political and economic union of 27 states, with common institutions, a single market and common policies.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
F
- Family resemblance
- A network of partial similarities with no feature common to all (Wittgenstein).Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
G
- Genus
- The nearest wider category to which the defined thing belongs.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
I
- Infinite task
- In Husserl: the search for truth, which can always be checked, corrected and deepened, and never ends.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
P
- Persuasive definition
- A definition that loads a word with emotion in order to convince. It is a hidden argument.Example: “True Europe means…”Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
S
- Specific difference
- The feature that distinguishes the defined thing from the others in the same category.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
- Spiritual shape geistige Gestalt
- In Husserl: Europe as a way of thinking and living, born together with Greek philosophy.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
T
- Theoretical attitude
- Interest in truth for its own sake, valid for anyone, not just for immediate use.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
- Too broad / too narrow definition
- Takes in things that do not belong to the concept / leaves out things that do.Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
V
- Verbal dispute
- An argument in which the speakers use the same word in different senses.Example: “Moldova is in Europe” (geographically) and “Moldova is not in Europe” (politically).Lecture 01 · What Is Europe?
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