L1: PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE SELF Flashcards
love of wisdom
PHILOSOPHY
___________ is the study of the basic/ fundamental principles of life, knowledge, reality, existence, morality, and human nature through the use OF _______ AND __________
PHILOSOPHY
LOGIC AND REASON
Mother of all discipline
PHILOSOPHY
Love;
Wisom;
Philos
Sophia
3 OBJECTIVES OF PHILOSOPHY
1.IT OPENS THE MIND OF PEOPLE
2.IT DOES NOT PROVIDE ULTIMATE ANSWERS DESPITE THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS
3.ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUALS TO SEEK ANSWERS FOR THEMSELVES
when does philosophizing start?
when we WONDER
usual questions that people ask
Existential questions
3 WAYS ON HOW TO BECOME A PHILOSOPHER IN OUR OWN MANAGEABLE WAY
1.ASK QUESTIONS
2.SEARCH/SEEK FOR THE ANSWER
3.THE MOMENT YOU GET THE ANSWER, WE MUST KNOW THAT IT IS NOT YET THE ULTIMATE ANSWER
THE CENTER OF IDEAS IN PRE-SOCRATIC ERA
COSMO-CENTRIC
RELATING TO THE WORLD
COSMO
CENTRIC
CENTER
EARTH FLOWS ON WATER
THALES
______________- _________: BOUNDLESS SOMETHING AS THE ORIGINATING CAUSE OF THE WORLD
ANAXIMANDER
APEIRON
WHO POSTULATED ETERNAL MOTION
ANAXIMANDER
AIR IS THE SOURCE OF ALL THINGS
ANAXIMENES
EVERYTHING IS COMPOSED OF ATOMS WHICH ARE PHYSICALLY BUT GEOMETRICALLY INDIVISIBLE THAT BETWEEN ATOM LIES AN EMPTY SPACE THAT ATOMS ARE INDESTRUCTIBLE
DEMOCRITUS
- EVERYTHING IS FIRE
-EVERYTHING IS IN CONSTANT CHANGE OR PROGRESSION MORE SO THAN CHAOS
HERACLITUS
MIND OR THE SUPREME PRINCIPLE IS INFINITE
ANAXAGORAS
NUMBERS
PYTHAGORAS
IRST PHILOSOPHER WHO EVER ENGAGED IN A SYSTEMATIC QUESTIONING OF THE SELF
SOCRATES
DUALISTIC REALITY: __________ AND __________-
BODY AND SOUL
“KNOW THYSELF”
“AN UNEXAMINED LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING”
SOCRATES
IMPERFECT AND IMPERMANENT
BODY
PERFECT AND PERMANENT
SOUL