1Q: INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

Question 1

determining the concept of truth

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Philosophy

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coined the term Philosphy

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Pythagoras

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world is made up of water

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Thales

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three characteristics of a philosophical question, british philosopher

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Isaiah Berlin

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various forms of reasoning and arriving at genuine conclusions

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Logic

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norms and standards of right and wrong

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Ethics

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what people actually believe

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Descriptive ethics

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considerations how one should act

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Normative ethics

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focuses on the rightness and wrongness of the actions

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duty ethics

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morality of an action is contingent with the outcome of that action.

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Consequentialism or teleological ethics

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various problems concerning knowledge

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Epistemology

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existence or reality

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Metaphysics

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idea of what is beautiful

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Aesthetics

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Father of Western Philosophy

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Thales

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fundamental substance must be air

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Anaximenes

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cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers

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Pythagoras

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reality is the infinite

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Anaximander

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permanent in this world is change - flame of fire

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Heraclitus

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4 elements

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Empedocles

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no motion

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Zeno

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tackled the idea of justice in ancient greece

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Plato’s The Republic

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series of q&a

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Socratic Method

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talking back and forth

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Dialectic Method

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group of 3 people who work together

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triumvirate

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doubting everything

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Systematic/Methodic Doubt

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actions done consciously and freely by man

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Human Acts

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senses over reasoning capabilities

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Plato’s Division of World

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human person is composed of co-principles: form and matter: soul and body

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Aristotle’s Co-Principles of Things

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spatial beings limitation

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be present in 2 or more places

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temporal beings’ most obvious limitation

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finitude

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moral relationships of human beings in the environment

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Environmental Ethics

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human beings are the central

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Anthropocentrism

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life-centered theory

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Biocentrism

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extended to intelligent animals

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Pathocentrism

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ecosystems as holistic entities

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Ecocentrism

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living things possesses equal value

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Deep Ecology

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ecological prob can be traced to social prob

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Social Ecology

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male-centered view of nature is the root cause

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Ecofeminism

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“Philosophy is a vision”

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Friedrich Weismann

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positive conception of freedom

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Immanuel Kant

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freedom and obligation are two indispensable conditions

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John Mothershead

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happiness is the ultimate criterion

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John Stuart Mill

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facticity of human life cannot choose what is already given about itself

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Jean Paul Sartre