Introduction to PA

Question 1

What is Philosophy

Answer 1

Philosophy means love of wisdom.

Question 2

What are some of the key points of philosophy

Answer 2

Knowledge 
Worldview 
Ideology 
A science 
Etymology

Question 3

What is Knowledge

Answer 3

Human attempt to understand himself /herself and a world about him / her.

Question 4

What is worldview

Answer 4

A way of understanding and interpreting the world about us.

Question 5

What is ideology

Answer 5

This is an idea or principle ; a concept underlying a core value or set of values which guide belied and action

Question 6

What is science

Answer 6

A systematic study of all things by way of their causes… in philosophy we look for the ultimate cause.

Question 7

What is Etymology

Answer 7

It is the fact that Philosophy means love of wisdom

Question 8

What is another definition of philosophy

Answer 8

Philosophy can also be seen as the knowledge of all things through their ultimate causes, acquired through the use of reason

Question 9

What is the equation of wisdom

Answer 9

Wisdom is (Knowledge + Experience ) / Time

Question 10

Give one reason why studying Philosophy is important

Answer 10

Philosophy courses give you a deep understanding of the world and how it works or how its supposed to work.

Question 11

What is the question we ask in metaphysics

Answer 11

What is real !

This goes beyond the physical or spiritual but by asking the most universal questions in relation to what’s real.

Question 12

What is the question we ask in Philosophical Anthropology

Answer 12

Who are we who ask these questions.

Question 13

What is the question we ask in ethics

Answer 13

What should we be and do ?

Question 14

What do we ask in epistemology

Answer 14

How do we know such things ?

How do we know anything ?

Question 15

What is another name for epistemology

Answer 15

Theory of knowing

Question 16

Why is it important to learn Philosophical Anthropology

Answer 16

When you do the question of ethics it is always dependent on your metaphysics and on your anthropology. This is because you cant know what’s good for man unless you know what man is.

Question 17

What is the fundamental question we are answering in PA

Answer 17

Who is man?

Question 18

What is anthropology

Answer 18

This is the science or study of man.

It basically covers the past and present of humans.

Question 19

What is philosophical Anthropology ?

Answer 19

This is the study of man from a point of view of wisdom.

Question 20

What is being

Answer 20

This is all that exists

Question 21

What are the 3 principles

Answer 21

1. Principle of non contradiction - Something cannot be and not be in the same manner, respect and time.
2. Principle of excluded middle ground - there is no middle ground between being and non being. There is no middle ground between being a human person and not being a human person.
3. Principle of identity- something is what it is. e.g A human being is a human being.