enamu philo Flashcards
- A remark when you tried to argue and reason out
Pilosopo
- Said when someone is trying to be witty with their reasoning that made us speechless
Pilosopo
- Those who study philosophy as an academic discipline are perpetually engaged in asking, answering, and arguing for their answers to life’s most basic questions
Philosopher
Philos
LOVE
Sophia
WISDOM
Philosophy
Love for wisdom
- An activity that people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other
Philosophy
- Will teach us how to argue and defend our ideas and beliefs, but at the same time being open to other possibilities as we progress in time, collaboration with others, and truth confrontation
Philosophy
- Big ideas arising from big questions
- One of the main branches of philosophy
- Deals with the “beings of beings”
- Study of reality
Metaphysics
- Aspect of philosophy
- Arguments or reasons given for people’s answers to their questions
- Employed to study the nature and structure of arguments
Logic
- Stimulates us to venture into philosophy
Wonder
- Ability to discern and judge which aspects of that knowledge are true, right, lasting, and applicable to your life
- To be wise is to know the truth
Wisdom
- About facts and ideas that we acquire through study
Knowledge
To know the necessary truths and its logical consequences
Theoretical Wisdom
Classifications of wisdom
Theoretical Wisdom
Practical Wisdom
- A part of the whole
Particular
Knowledge in the realm of action
Practical Wisdom
- Always rooted from a bigger triggering problem or situation
- The beginning to finding an answer is to ask a philosophical question
Philosophical Question
- To think of an answer to these questions is to engage in a -
Philosophical Reflection
- German philosopher
- Studies metaphysics
- What makes philosophy different in science is that a scientific question is always confined to the particular, whereas a philosophical question “leads into the totality of beings” and “inquires into the whole” (The Essence of Human Freedom)
Martin Heidegger
- The whole
Universal
- Most famous works of plato
a. Apology: an account of Socrates’s trial
b. Republic: Theory of Forms
There were things that device, confuse, or mislead in this world
- Looking for real answers requires much intellectual effort and rational ability
- Student of Socrates
- Teacher to Aristotle
Plato
is a technique to resolve philosophical questions; dates back to the ancient Greek; art of refutation; grew more in the modern era in the form of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis
- Dialectics
- Left no writings but conversed with people from all walks of like using question and answer as a concrete living out of his famous advice—”know thyself”
- His commitment to philosophy was the reason he was condemned to death
- His life is a puzzle because Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes presented differing accounts
- One must admit that he is not wise
Socrates
is considered as a result of collaboration with partners in dialogue or conversation
- Philosophical discovery
- used dialectics, demonstrating consistency and clarity
- Socrates
proposed the dialectical pattern in history—the interplay of opposing ideas is needed for growth
G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx
- Surpassed his teacher by the number of works he wrote and diverse fields he studied (i.e. philosophy, biology, politics, psychology, and art)
- Tutored a 13-year-old boy Alexander the Great
- Aristotle also put up a school in Athens called Lyceum
Aristotle
Philosophical Thought in 3 Views
Cosmocentric View (Ancient Philosophy)
Theocentric View (Medieval Period)
Anthropocentric View (Modern View)
- Understand the ultimate nature of the world
- In Western philosophy, Thales was the first to wonder about the origin of the universe that led him to the view that water is the underlying principle of all things
Cosmocentric View (Ancient Philosophy)
- Church sustained man’s intellect in which the world became secondary to God
- Philosophers such as Avicenna, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas existed
- E.g. Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Shinto
Theocentric View (Medieval Period)