PHILO QUIZ Flashcards
-A remark when you tried to argue and reason out
-Said when someone is trying to be witty with their reasoning that made us speechless
-Look at one perspective
Pilosopo
Those who study philosophy as an academic discipline are perpetually engaged in asking, answering, and arguing for their answers to life’s most basic questions
Philosopher
Philos
love
Sophia
wisdom
Philosophy Greek meaning
love for wisdom
-Big ideas arising from big questions
-One of the main branches of philosophy
-Deals with the “beings of beings”
-Study of reality
Metaphysics
-Aspect of philosophy
-Arguments or reasons given for people’s answers to their questions
-Employed to study the nature and structure of arguments
Logic
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.” by who?
Socrates / Plato
-Stimulates us to venture into philosophy
-Curiosity is when you think of how to use a new gadget, while wisdom is to ask whether one can live without it
Wonder
About facts and ideas that we acquire through study
Knowledge
-Ability to discern and judge which aspects of that knowledge are true, right, lasting, and applicable to your life
-To be wise is to know the truth
Wisdom
Classification of Wisdom according to Aristotle
Theoretical Wisdom
Practical Wisdom
Knowledge in the realm of action
Practical Wisdom
To know the necessary truths and its logical consequences
Theoretical Wisdom
-Always rooted from a bigger triggering problem or situation
-The beginning to finding an answer is to ask a -
Philosophical Question
-To think of an answer to these questions is to engage in a -
-Compels us to look at a particular experience from a wider perspective
Philosophical Reflection
-A part of the whole
-Just one among the other questions
-Confined to a single situation
Particular
-The whole
-Talks about the experiences which particular questions arises
-Requires consideration of other aspects of human experiences relevant and connected to it
-Can answer the particular question
Universal
What makes philosophy different in science is that a scientific question is always confined to the particular, whereas a philosophical question “leads into the totality of beings” and “inquires into the whole”
The goal is that from a particular philosophical question, the wholeness of reality is revealed
The Essence of Human Freedom
-German philosopher
-Studies metaphysics
-The Essence of Human Freedom
Martin Heidegger
-360 B.C.E.: There were things that device, confuse, or mislead in this world
-Looking for real answers requires much intellectual effort and rational ability
-One of the most famous philosophers who ever lived
-Greek Athenian philosopher
-Student of Socrates
-Teacher to Aristotle
-Wrote numerous dialogues in which Socrates is the main character
Plato
“Every person that engages in philosophical reflection must recognize that possible answers to philosophical questions require adequate justification or rational basis.”
Plato
Most famous works of Plato
Apology: an account of Socrates’s trial
Republic: Theory of Forms
-Left no writings but conversed with people from all walks of like using question and answer as a concrete living out of his famous advice—”know thyself”
-His commitment to philosophy was the reason he was condemned to death
-His life is a puzzle because Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes presented differing accounts
-One must admit that he is not wise
Socrates
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Socrates
is a technique to resolve philosophical questions; dates back to the ancient Greek; art of refutation; grew more in the modern era in the form of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis
Dialectics
must be supported by proof and logical argument to be considered true
claim
proposed the dialectical pattern in history—the interplay of opposing ideas is needed for growth
G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx
is considered as a result of collaboration with partners in dialogue or conversation
Philosophical discovery
-Surpassed his teacher by the number of works he wrote and diverse fields he studied (i.e. philosophy, biology, politics, psychology, and art)
-Tutored a 13-year-old boy Alexander the Great
-also put up a school in Athens called Lyceum
Aristotle
-A time of subjectivity and individualism—centered on man
-Result of rising modern science and the diminished power of the church in 17th century
Anthropocentric View (Modern View)