Module 1

Question 1

Philia

Answer 1

love

Question 2

Sophia

Answer 2

Wisdom

Question 3

• concerned with answering or reflecting on the biggest
  questions about life and reality
• a compendium of knowledge
• sum and summit of all sciences

Answer 3

Philosophy

Question 4

Starting point of Philosophy​

Answer 4

“What is the ultimate material of the universe?” ​

Question 5

Where did philosophy start?

Answer 5

Miletus, across the Aegean sea from Athens, on the western shores of Ionia in Asia Minor

Question 6

first philosophers are called?

Answer 6

Miletians or Ionians

Question 7

Father of philosophy​

Answer 7

Thales of Miletus

Question 8

Thales of Miletus answer to the miletian question

Answer 8

the ultimate material of the universe- Water.​

Question 9

he differentiated the three classes of people who attend the ancient Olympic Games

Answer 9

Pythagoras​

Question 10

Lovers of Gain

Answer 10

people seeking profit.​

Question 11

Lovers of Honor

Answer 11

people who compete in games for honor.​

Question 12

Lovers of Knowledge/ wisdom

Answer 12

spectators who seek to arrive at truth – Pythagoras called this class as PHILOSOPHERS.​

Question 13

It is based on certain knowledge derived from reasoned demonstration of causes and reduced to a system.​

Answer 13

Philosophy as a science

Question 14

Being

Answer 14

everything that exist​

All things that can be perceived by the human brain.​

Question 15

is that by which a thing is known or can be understood​

Answer 15

Reason

Question 16

that which contributes in some positive manner toward the production of a thing​

Answer 16

Cause

Question 17

is that which something proceeds.​

Answer 17

Principle

Question 18

Philosophy can be defined as a _____, and therefore a social activity, which consists in a human person a perennial and a disinterested search for the intelligible structure of the totality of being.​

Answer 18

human activity

Question 19

it attempts to understand the general principles and ideas that lie behind various aspects of life.​

Answer 19

Activity

Question 20

it is an activity of thinking clearly and accurately since among created beings, it is only human beings who has the capacity of rationalizing and searching for the meaning of human existence.​

Answer 20

Human activity

Question 21

in as much as a human person is a social being, it follows therefore that philosophy is a social activity. Whenever a person philosophizes, his thinking will be pointing towards others, either as a reaction to the philosophy of others or as a sign of being concerned with the existence of others.

Answer 21

Social activity

Question 22

a human person is continuously searching for the meaning of his/her existence. A human person as long as he/she is living here on earth, will go on searching for the why’s and how’s of life. As long as there is a human person in this earthly life, there will always be somebody who will philosophize. ​

Answer 22

Perennial search

Question 23

because it does not focus its attention on any particular subject. It discusses everything and anything. “Jack of all trades” and yet a master of none.​

Answer 23

Disinterested search

Question 24

it uses reason to attain its object. It includes only those mental activities that will lead the rational being to truth; it does not include all other mental activities like daydreaming and nightmares.

Answer 24

Intelligible structure

Question 25

Something that does not exist in and of itself but depends for its existence upon some other being.​

Answer 25

Contingent

Question 26

A necessary being is a living, self-aware thing that must necessarily exist for all other things to exist because that necessary being is the author of the universe and the initial cause of all things material.​

Answer 26

Necessary

Question 27

A principle is that from which something proceeds in any manner whatsoever.​

Answer 27

First Cause or Highest Principle​

Question 28

whatever it is, it is

Answer 28

Principle of identity​

Question 29

it is impossible for a thing to be and not to be at the same time, and at the same respect.​

Answer 29

Principle of non-contradiction​

Question 30

a thing is either is or is not; everything must be either be or not be; between being and not-being, there is no middle ground possible.​

Answer 30

Principle of excluded middle​

Question 31

nothing exists without a sufficient reason for its being and existence.​

Answer 31

Principle of sufficient Reason​