Philosophy Flashcards
The principal means “everything is what it is” what is not what is is. For example, a seed is a seed and will no longer be seed when it appears like not.
Principal of identity
An impossibility for a particular thing to be and not to be at the same time at the same respect
Principal of No-contradiction
Came from greek words philo and sophia which means “to love” and “wisdom”, respectively. Is defined as the science that by natural light of reason studies the highest principles of things.
Philosophy
An arguments that appear to be true but in actuality they pose false ideas, statements, and proposition.
Fallacies
Defined man as a “soul using a body.” For Plato, the body is material, it cannot live and move apart from the soul; it is mutable and destructible.
Plato
Is located in the head, especially in the brain.
The rational part
Is in the chest. It is here that the soul experiences emotion.
The spiritual part
Is in the abdomen where man drives to experience hunger, thirst, and other physical aspects.
The appetitive part
maintains that there is no dichotomy or division between man’s body and man’s soul.
Aristotle
the lowest type of soul which is found in all living things, plants, especially possess this type of soul.
Vegetative
exists in animals. It feeds, it grows, and it reproduces, and it has feelings, particularly, pain and pleasure.
Sensitive
Man is capable of thinking and judging aside from feeling and growing.
Rational
Study of the nature of value and valuation
Axiology
Study of the fundamental nature of reality
Metaphysics
Study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge
Epistemology
