Philosophy and Philosophizing Flashcards

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philia

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love

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sophia

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wisdom

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Love involve/entails:

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  • Passion
  • Pursuit
  • Going beyond
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wisdom involves/entails:

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  • knowledge/understanding
  • a reliable, accurate understanding of
    ourselves & the world
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5
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nature & function of philosophy

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ignorance

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6
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deeper knowledge, giving meaning and asking deeper questions

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philosophy

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way of life

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philosophy

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8
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the unending human search for Truth

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philosophy

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awayof thinking about the world, the universe, and the society.

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philosophy

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an activity people undertake when they seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationships to the world and to each other

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philosophy

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for those who are willing to be disturbed with a creative disturbance

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philosophy

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12
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for those who still have the capacity to wonder

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philosophy

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both an activity involving thinking
about these kinds of ultimate questions and an
activity involving the construction of sound reasons
or insights into our most basic assumptions
about understanding our lives and our place in
the universe

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philosophy

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14
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Into the principles of presuppositions of any field of
inquiry. Philisophy is not a subject of study like other
fields of inquiry

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Sustained Inquiry

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sometime regarded as a calling to ask, answer,
or comment upon certain kinds of questions

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Attitude and approach

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upon whch a fielld of inquryi is bsaed, and there
questions directly relat to the results discovered in
that field of inquiry

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Concerned with assumptions

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Why do people philosophize?

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  • there is tension in human existence
  • human interaction
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Three Types of Inquiry

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  • common sense
  • scientific inquiry
  • philosophical inquiry
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sound judgment based on a simple perception of
the situation or facts

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Common Sense

20
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careful investigation into some aspect of the natural
world whereby quantifiable relationships may be
propounded

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Scientific Inquiry

21
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goes beyond the scientific. It inquires the
coherence quality, sense of human life itself as a
comprehensive reality

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Philosophical Inquiry

22
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the initiation to philosophy

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questioning, of wanting to
know

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When man is confronted with Mystery, or Something whose causes are still unknown, he wonders why.- (the beginning of wisdom)

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Wonder is the feeling of a Philosopher

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To wonder means to realize that there is something ___behind the things that we ordinarily perceive
strange
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For the Love of Wisdom by___. An explanation of the meaning and purpose of Philosophy
Chris John-Terry
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Known for his methodic doubt
Rene Descartes
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He doubted everything until he identified something which cannot be___(that he is doubting).
doubted
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paved the way for the beginning of a new period in Philosophy.
doubt
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Being influenced by progress and success of science during that time, he was one of the many modern philosophers who tried to provide philosophy with___.
exactness of mathematics
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Grenzsituation-Limit Situations
Karl Jaspers
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any of certain situations in which a human being is said to have ___ from those arising from ordinary situations
differing experiences
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that we can only acknowledge but could not change.
inescapable realities
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Metaphysical uneasiness
Gabriel Marcel
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to start from external objects (outside of me) which I have a vague idea of
curious
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beyond the physical (external) but more of internal.
metaphysical uneasiness
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These perspectives will lead them to have their own theory
philosopher
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3 kinds of lives by Pythagoras
- Lowest class - Competitors - Spectators
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those who go there to buy and sell, to make profit
lowest class
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those who go there to compete, to gain honors
competitors
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those who come as ___ who reflect upon and analyze what is happening.
spectators
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llustrate the activity of philosophers who are liberated from___.
daily life and imperfections
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s one of the meanings of Greek word theory
to look on
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knowing the basics-----___------become unimportant for many adults.
- the first causes - ultimate principles