Philosophy Flashcards
What is philosophy?
-Study of acquiring knowledge through rational thinking and inquiries
- Answering questions about the nature of man and word
- Philo means “love”
- Sophia means “wisdom”
Socrates
-Dualist
- human choice was motivated by the desire for happiness
- Ultimate wisdom comes from knowing oneself
“Know thy self” for you to know what makes you happy
Socrates
Plato
- student of socrates
- soul exist before and after death
- dualist
3 elements of soul
Rational soul (truth and uses logical thinking)
Appetite( basic needs and bodily desires)
Will ( emotion, passion and spirit)
Saint Augustine
Aurelius Agustinus
Knowledge of our true self requires knowledge of our divine origin
Knowing god is equal to knowing ourselves
Dualist
Discursive thinking
Moral and intellectual perfection
Intuitive self awareness
Consciousness and identity of self
Rene Descartes
His argument is known as Cogito
If he is capable of doubting, then he must exist
The essence of mind, which he describes in terms of doubting, affirming, judging
Our mind is considered as substance
Dualist
Substance
Something that is capable of existing independently.
Cogito ergo sum
I think therefore I am
John Locke
Personality identity is a matter of psychological continuity
“Empty Mind” or Tabula Rasa which is shaped by experience and sensations and reflections
Dualist
David Humes
No mind or self
Argues passions as determinants of behavior
Also appears as beheviorist believing that human learns as lower animals
Idea of self is not any one impressions
Dualist
Immanuel Kant
Aiming to justify a conviction in physics as a body of universal truth especially in immortality and free will
Dualist
2 components of the self
Inner self ( souls are objects of inner self)
Outer self (bodies are objects of outer self)