Doing Philosophy

Question 1

It is the concern of the logician

Answer 1

Reasoning

Question 2

It is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being to know what is real

Answer 2

Metaphysics

Question 3

He was the first philosopher to devise a logical method

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

It is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations including sublime, comic, tragic, pathetic, and ugly

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Aesthetics

Question 5

They started to indulge in feverish philosophical speculation

Answer 5

The Western Thinkers

Question 6

He said everything is water.

Answer 6

Thales

Question 8

Philosophy is called a “science” because?

Answer 8

The investigation is systematic

Question 8

It is a genuine sympathy and an understanding of all the most diverse points of view

Answer 8

Holistic Perspective

Question 9

In attaining wisdom there is a need for?

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Emptying

Question 10

He is a good example of a metaphysican who draws the sharpest possible contrast berween reality and appearance

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Plato

Question 11

Things about us change so rapidly today that we forget how much we owe to the past. *this importance of aesthetics is?

Answer 11

It brings us in touch with our culture

Question 12

He is a German philosopher, who argues that oir tastes of judgements regarding beauty, work in connection with one’s own personal experience and culture

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Hans-Georg Gadamer

Question 13

It deals with nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge (Soccio 2007)

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Epistemology

Question 14

It explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions

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Ethics

Question 15

It is more important to find a general law according to which particular facts can be understood or judged

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Deduction

Question 16

Deduction’s advocates are called?

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Rationalists(e.g. Rene Descartes)

Question 17

Whatever is is; and whatever is not is not; everything is what it is.

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Principle of Identity

Question 18

Philosophy investigates things, not by using any other laboratory instrument or investigative tools, neither on the basis of supernatural revelation, otherwise it becomes theology;

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Natural Light of Reason

Question 19

Literally means to leave everything to God who is Bathala in the vernacular

Answer 19

Bahala Na

Question 20

To live an abundant life, one must pursue ones desires and inner self.

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Abundance is not what we keep but what we give away

Question 21

He is the founder of a movement known as Stoicism. Also one of the successors of Aristotle

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Zeno of Citium

Question 22

They began diminishing philosophical activity.

Answer 22

Asian Thinkers