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Philosophy

In philosophy, what you can memorise is authors, concepts, distinctions and the references you must be able to cite. Lumi asks them back, while the essay and the reasoning are yours.

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Make one note per concept and one per thinker, with a short definition, the central thesis, a key distinction and a phrase or an example. Lumi quizzes those elements, which give you solid references in an essay. The typical trap is reciting the thinker without knowing how to use them on a problem. After each note, say out loud which question on your syllabus this thinker answers. Lumi puts the knowledge at hand to feed your essays. Testing yourself by producing the answer fixes things better than rereading a course (Karpicke and Blunt, 2011).

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Philosophy · teach this card to Lumi

Socrates was condemned to death in Athens in 399 BC. John Locke argued that the mind begins as a blank slate, or tabula rasa. John Stuart Mill defended utilitarianism, the idea that right actions maximise happiness. Kant’s categorical imperative says to act only on maxims you could will to become universal laws.

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Socrates was condemned to death in Athens in _____ BC.

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