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Doing Philosophy, Truth & Opinion, Human Limitation & Transcendence Flashcards

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What is Philosophy?

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  1. pursuit of wisdom
  2. search for general understanding of values and reality
  3. love for wisdom
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Philosophy came from the greek terms _______ which means love and SOPHIA which means ________

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PHILOS, Wisdom

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Considered the main purpose of doing philosophy as an activity

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Understand the fundamental truth

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How can a person fully understand how philosophy is done?

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By engaging on it

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Doing philosophy entails what?

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Doing philosophy entails a holistic rather than a partial perspective

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The appearance of the eye of objects in respect to their relative distance and positions; aiding vision

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Perspective

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Relating to or concerned with complete rather than with individual parts

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Holistic

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Look at all aspect of the given problem or situation

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Holistic Point of View

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It promotes little knowledge on the situation which leads to wrong conclusions

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Partial Point of View

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All aspects are tied together to form a general overview of the problem

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Holistic Point of View

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Conclusions are made based on considering some, but not all sides of the problem

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Partial Point of View

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Bird’s eye view of the whole; it raises from level of everyday life to a higher level

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Abstractive thinking

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seeing with the mind or using the mind to see the world

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insights

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Viewing things and situations in a larger broader perspective

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Holistic Perspective

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a person must learn to and see how a thing is related to everything else

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mark of holistic perspective

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ensuring that our actions and decisions are well thought out and are done with due regard for their implications and consequences on ourselves, others, and our surroundings.

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Reflection

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this enables a person to engage in critical analysis and interpretation of concepts, definitions, arguments, and problems

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Doing Philosophy

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improves problem-solving and decision making

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Doing Philosophy

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refers to a person’s ability to apply knowledge to daily life particularly in making sound choices

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Wisdom

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Knowledge of Philosophy can contribute to ______________

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self-development

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21
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related to science because it is the field that delivers knowledge about the world

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truth

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Truth understood this way is what philosophers call ___________

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Objective Truth

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process of proving the truth of validity of the statement

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Justification

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statement of judgement of a person about something in the world

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Opinion

25
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In order for an opinion to gain the status of truth, it must be able to pass the _______________

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Test of Justification

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group of statements that serve to support a conclusion or explains the validity of an opinion

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Argument

27
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conclusion of an argument

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Claim

28
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reasons used to support a conclusion

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Premises

29
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What are the three domains of truth?

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  1. Objective Domain
  2. Social Domain
  3. Personal Domain
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the “truth” is analogous with general or consensus on what is right as opposed to what is wrong

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Social Domain

31
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mostly products of an “agreement” in society that has been established over time

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Social Domain

32
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known as the scientific truth; this truth is tested or justified through empirical evidence

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Objective Domain

33
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the “truth” is analogous with sincerity; truth is tested or justified against the consistency and authenticity of the person who claims it

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Personal Domain

34
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many things that are related to our existence as persons are related to our bodies–age, sex, race, relationships and others

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Embodied Existence

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they have in the sense been given to us as permanent basis. it then comes no surprise that the body is the source of frustration to many

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Human Limitation

36
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refers to the things in our lives that are already given

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facticity

37
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fact that we are born and that we exist in a particular place and time already sets limitation

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Spatial

38
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we recognize our mortality and accept that we will not live forever

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Temporality

39
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my body as intermediary limits me in communicating with other people

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Body as Intermediary

40
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transcendence originated from the words TRANS meaning _________ and SCANDARE meaning ___________

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go beyond, climb

41
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Going beyond the limits of the ordinary experience

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Transcendence

42
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for the better or greater that what is usual; act of rising above to a superior state

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Transcendence

43
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we cannot simply truly change our facticity, but we what we can do is change our attitude towards them

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TRANSCENDING LIMITATIONS - Facticity

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history making creatures, and we are not limited to what nature has initially given us

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Historicity

45
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It is a challenge on how to make our lives more interesting and more meaningful; and a challenge to make the most out of our time in this life

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TRANSCENDING LIMITATIONS - Spatial-Temporal

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this serves as a challenge for us to work on a good relationship with people whom we want to open for us. learn how to be responsible, to be patient, sensitive, understanding, and a lot of other values

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TRANSCENDING LIMITATIONS - Body as Intermediary

47
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use to win the support for an argument or idea by exploiting the opponent’s feelings of pity or guilt; appeal to emotion

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Argumentum ad Misericordiam (Appeal to Pity)

48
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A proposition is true because many or most people believe it; appeal to masses, majority, popularity

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Argumentum ad Populum (Bandwagon Fallacy)

49
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attacking the character, motive or the attribute of the person, making the argument associated with the argument rather than attacking the substance of the argument

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Argumentum ad Hominem (Argument against the person)

50
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group of statements that appear to be arguments but fail to support to conclusion; use of faulty reasoning

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Fallacy

51
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use of real or threatened violent or non violent coercion; used by people who want to win a conflict by issuing threats to their opponents

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Argumentum ad Baculum (Appeal to Force)

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diverting away from the actual argument by bringing up another issue

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Red Herring Fallacy

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arguing against an oversimplified or distorted version of your opponent’s argument

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Straw Man Fallacy

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