lesson 3 Flashcards
COSMOCENTRIC (focused on physics or the discovery of nautre) and LOGOCENTRIC (reason based)
ancient conception
he changed the philoosphical landscape of doing philosophy and challenged sophists (e.g. protagoras, thrasymachus)
socrates
Did not have an explicit discussion about his view on the human person. He put an emphasis on the Arete of the Psyche.
SOCRATES
arete means?
excellence
psyche means?
soul
His philosophy primarily focuses on how the soul deals with excellence or how the soul can achieve excellence.
Socrates
“the only thing i know, is that i know nothing”
this is an example of what
socratic irony
he placed greater emphasis on the role of the mind (also understood as the soul of the person)
plato
- Knowledge of the good
- Cultivation of the soul
- Says “the human person is a soul”
- his teacher was Socrates
- emphasized the importance of knowledge.
plato
According to —–, the intellect must be continuously cultivated. Without knowledge one cannot live a moral life but what kind of knowledge should one have?
Plato
according to plato’s philosophy this is: Imperfect
Changing
Known through senses
The physical world
world of matter
according to plato’s philosophy this is: Perfect
Unchanging
beyond the human senses
Exists independently.
eternal ideas like justice, beauty, soul, etc.
world of forms
3 parts of the human soul according to Plato
rational, spritiual, appetitive
This is the one that guides our thinking toward the truth
Rational
Heart of the soul
Spiritual
Contains the leisures of one person, like our fulfillments and desires.
Appetitive
- true knowledge can be known through experience
- student of Plato but departed from Plato’s ideas.
- dualism of the body and the soul does not exist.
aristotle
the human person is the composite of substance and form that always exist together, aristotle called this —-.
hylomorphism
— is what underlies and persists through change. ‘di nagbabago throughout your entire time in the world.
Substance - Aristotle’s theory of substance
it is the underlying substance of an object
hyle (matter)