Intro to Philosophy Flashcards
Philosophical study on the correct process of thinking
Logic
Greek word which means “The formal systematic study of the principles of valid interference and correct reasoning”.
Logiké
How knowledge relates to truth, belief, and justification.
Epistemology
The means of production of knowledge.
Epistemology
Investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science.
Metaphysics
Traditional Branches of Metaphysics
Ontology and Cosmology
Philosophical study on the morality of human actions.
Ethics
Study of the universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity’s place in it.
Cosmology
Philosophical study of the nature of being.
Ontology
Deals with questions concerning what entities exists.
Ontology
Take the broadest possible perspective on a subject of inquiry.
Philosophy as a Speculative Thinking
To judge; to analyze.
Philosophy as Critical Thinking
A systematic, rigorous, disciplined thinking that involves being part of and experiencing the world.
Philosophy as Reflective Inquiry
“The whole universe is composed of different forms of water.”
Thales
“The whole universe is composed of air.”
Anaximenes
“The whole universe is composed of fire.”
Heraclitus
“The whole universe is composed of the infinite or boundless.”
Anaximander
Enquiry inti the nature of existence, being and the world.
Metaphysics
All things are composed of materials.
Materialists
The essence of the universe could be encountered through the study of mathematics.
Pythagoras
3 Aspects of the Human Nature
Somatc, Behavioral, Attitudinal
The body. The material composition and the substance.
Somatic
A person’s mode of acting.
Behavioral
A person’s feelings, inclinations, convictions, prejudices or bias, or disposition towards a certain type of activity.
Attitudinal
According to him, a human person has an immortal soul that has the capacity to have motion coming from the inside.
Plato
A human person has an immortal soul that has the capacity to have motion coming from the inside. It is immortal.
The Human Person as an Immortal Soul
According to him, the body is composed of matter, shape or form and the product of both.
Aristotle
The body is composed of matter, shape or form and the product of both.
The Human Person as a Composite Body and Soul
He said that the nature of a human person is pure mind.
René Descartes
The nature of a human person is pure mind.
The Human Being is a “Thinking Thing”
It is made up of a human’s biological, psychological, and rational powers.
Human Nature
The awareness that reality is a process, moving with direction and purpose, and within this movement each movement is connected by the process of goal, so it is perfect.
Cosmic Perfection
Being-in-itself
Being-for-itself
The Human Being has a Consciousness
It is the inevitable positive or negative events of existence as a human being. The human person realizes how it is to be human.
Human Condition
Human person has free will that he can see in order to make his existence become authentic.
Existentialism
Cosmocentric
Ancient Philosophy
Beginning of Everything
Ancient Philosophy
Thales, Pythagoras, Democritus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Ancient Philosophy
The study of the existence, nature, and essence of God.
Theocentric (Medieval Philosophy)
The existence of evil and the immortality of the soul.
Ethical (Medieval Philosophy)
The study of man in relation to himself, others, nature, and God.
Anthropocentric (Modern Philosophy)
It has no center.
Explosive (Contemporary Philosophy)
