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means “love of wisdom”
philo-“love” sophos-“wisdom”
PHILOSOPHY
-is an action that people carry out when they look to understand major truths about themselves, the world in which they live, as well as their relationships to the world and to each other.
PHILOSOPHY
4 Main Classical Philosophers
1.Socrates
2. Plato
3. Aristotle
4. Confucious
-coined the term “the unexamined life is not worth living”.
-He is best known for the Socratic Method of question and answer, his claim that he was ignorant, and his claim that unexamined life is not worth living, for human beings.
Socrates
-is the philosopher with the famous quote “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
Plato
-is a famous philosopher that quoted “happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”.
Aristotle
-is a Chinese philosopher that quoted “our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”.
Confucius
asking questions continuosly until a conflict or a contradiction is exposed, thus proving the fallacy of the initial assumption.
SOCRATIC METHOD
(Socrates)
Entrepreneurs can find the value in Socratic Method because they, too, are bombarded by assumptions based on what others and they themselves believe to be the best plan of actiob for pursuing a business idea.
Socrates implication on a business philosophy
differentiate the abstract world of thought from the world of the senses, where art mythology operate.
THE THEORY OF FORMS
(Plato)
-he recognized the importance of pleasure and pain in human motivation.
-he advocated a “golden mean” between the extremes of human aactivity
ARISTOTLE
Aristotle’s implication on a business philosophy
Virtue and Happiness
Moral Education
-the philosophy of him emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity.
CONFUCIUS