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Its original meaning is “love of wisdom”

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Philosophy

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It is the literal Filipino translation of the term philosopher and this person like to reason out or to engage in the activity of reasoning

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Pilosopo

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A Greek word which means “love”

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Philein

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A Greek word which means “wisdom”

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Sophia

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A lover of wisdom or one who loves wisdom; wise men/the one who knows

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Philosopher

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The Ancient Greek thinker more popularly known for his mathematical formula, the Pythagorean theorem. He first used the term “philosopher” and preferred to be called a “philosopher” rather than a sophist

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Pythagoras

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He is the father of Western philosophy and teacher of Plato

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Socrates

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Group of intellectuals who taught oratory (the art of public speaking) for free to individuals aspiring to have a successful career in politics; a person who reasons with clever but fallacious arguments. They believed that all truths are relative. Determined by human interests

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Sophist

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One who is aware of what he/she knows and what he/she does not know; holds beliefs that are not only true but which he/she can also justify; knows a lot about things that are valuable in life; can put his/her knowledge to practical use; does not only know what is true, but also knows what is good or what ought to be done in a given situation and he/she acts accordingly

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Wise person

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6 DEEPEST MEANING OF PHILOSOPHY

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  • Historical Approach
  • Analysis of Language
  • Program of Change
  • Set of Questions and Answers
  • World View
  • Criticism
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“Historical significance” from wonder to wander. Therefore, having philosophy can expose us to the truth, but doing philosophy can bring us closer to the same truth

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Historical Approach

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To be filled with curiosity or doubt; an event inexplicable by the laws of nature, a miracle

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Wonder

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Walk or move in a leisurely, casual, or aimless way; an act or instance of wandering

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Wander

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Rejected metaphysics and accepted the simple but useful modern standard of scientific verification. Their thesis is that only truths of logic and empirically verifiable statements are meaningful

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Analysis of Language

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Karl Marx declared that the rome of philosophy is not to think about the world, but to change it. Philosophy is not to be an ivory tower enterprise without relevance to the world of human conditions

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Program of Change

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The attempt to clear away shabby thinking and establish concepts with greater precision and meaning. It must not be confused with skepticism and it is carried on for the pursuit of purer, or better knowledge

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Criticism

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He is one of the earliest to engage in philosophic criticism

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Socrates

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5 TYPES OF PHILOSOPHY

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  • Thematic Types
  • Positional Types
  • Methodological Types
  • Regional Types
  • Historical Types
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Under this classification are the kinds of philosophy that are distinguished from one another according to the topic of the issues being addressed. Under this group are what we called branches of philosophy and what we shall call disciplinal philosophies

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Thematic Types

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10 BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY

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  • Logic
  • Epistemology
  • Metaphysics
  • Ethics
  • Aesthetics
  • Social and Political Philosophy
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Philosophy of Mind
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Reasoning; distinguishing between correct and incorrect forms of reasoning

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Logic

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Knowledge; determining the kinds, sources, and conditions of knowledge

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Epistemology

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Reality, existence; establishing whether reality consists of physical objects only, of nonphysical objects only, or of both physical and nonphysical objects

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Metaphysics

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Morality; identifying the standards for making moral judgments, clarifying the meaning of moral judgements

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Ethics

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Beauty; determining the criteria for judgements about beauty

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Aesthetics

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The state; legitimizing the existence of the state, determining the limits of the state’s political power, defining social and distributive justice

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Social and Political Philosophy

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Science; distinguishing between scientific and nonscientific statements, justifying the process of induction

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Philosophy of Science

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Religious beliefs; clarifying the meaning of religious statements, proving the existence of God, reconciling the occurrence of evil with God’s goodness and power

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Philosophy of Religion

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Meaning of linguistic expressions; determining the meaning of proper names, definite descriptions, and psychological statements

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Philosophy of Language

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Mind or consciousness; establishing whether the mind is physical or not, identifying the properties of the mind, determining the possibility of artificial/machine intelligence

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Philosophy of Mind

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Under this classification are the kinds of philosophy that are distinguished from one another according to the solution that is being proposed for a certain issue. They correspond to what are called philosophical schools of thought or philosophical views

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Positional Types

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Under this classification are the kinds of philosophy that are distinguished from one another according to method used to resolve a certain issue. Philosophies are also classified according to the kind of philosophical method that they use in dealing with philosophical issues. They correspond to what are sometimes called philosophical movements, approaches, and traditions

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Methodological Types

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Some Influential Methodological Types of Philosophy (7)

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  • Analytic Philosophy
  • Phenomenology
  • Hermeneutics
  • Marxism
  • Existentialism
  • Feminism
  • Postmodernism
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Which uses the methods of linguistic analysis, logical analysis, and conceptual analysis

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Analytic Philosophy

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Which used the methods of bracketing of presuppositions or suspension of judgements and direct experiental analysis

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Phenomenology

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Which uses different forms of textual analysis as methods of interpretation

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Hermeneutics

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Which used the methods of historical and economic analysis and dialectical materialism

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Marxism

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Which uses the method of existential analysis or analysis that related the question of life’s meaning

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Existentialism

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Which uses the method of gender analysis or analysis that considers the issue of gender inequality

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Feminism

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Which used the methods of deconstruction and power analysis

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Postmodernism

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Under this classification are the kinds of philosophies that are distinguished from one another according to the geographical location in which philosophizing transpires or flourishes. These are usually divided into two major types: the so-called Western philosophy and Eastern philosophy

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Regional Types

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Under this classification are the kinds of philosophies that are distinguished from one another according to the historical period in which philosophizing occurred

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Historical Types

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The philosophies of the Ancient Greek and Roman philosophies

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Ancient Philosophy

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Refer to the philosophies of the Pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

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Ancient Greek philosophies

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Include the philosophies of Seneca and Marcus Aurelius

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Ancient Roman philosophies

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This is commonly known as theocentrism, a God centered philosophy. This include the philosophies of St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, John Duns Scotus

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Medieval Philosophy

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The philosophies of modern rationalists, modern empiricists, Kant, the German idealists, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche

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Modern Philosophy

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The analytic philosophies, the phenomenology, the phenomenological-existential philosophies, the political philosophies, the Frankfurt school of philosophy, the hermeneutic philosophies, and the postmodern philosophies

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Contemporary Philosophy

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