Philosophy Lesson 1: Doing Philosophy Flashcards
Who said “The unexamined life is not worth living”?
Socrates
Lived and died teaching the truth to the youth of Athens.
Socrates
The basic teachings of Socrates are attributed to the writings of who?
Plato
The Socratic method of the way of eliciting the truth by question and answer.
Elenchus
The eternal quest for the truth.
Philosophy
It is to know that you do not know.
Docta ignorantia
Virtue of perfection
Arete
Philosophy comes from what Greek words?
Phylos which means “to love” and sophia which means “wisdom”
This term is often defined as “love of wisdom”
Philosophy
Who introduced the term “philosopher”?
Pythagoras
Who said “all men by nature desire to know”?
Aristotle
Our desire for knowledge must lead to a life-long process, in search of practical wisdom or ___?
phronesis
A life of real happiness
Eudaimonia
Something that emerges when we are thrown into a situation.
Insight
The process of arriving at an insight is called what?
Abstraction
Refers to analysis of concepts
Abstraction
Analysis is derived from two Greek words namely ___ and ___
Ana which means up and lusis which means dissolution
Refers to the process directed at deriving clear concepts about reality.
Primary reflection
Contains the most systematic exposition of Gabriel Marcel’s thought.
The Mystery of Being
Makes us see clarity in things.
Primary reflection
Marcel says that this term is “not exercised on things that are not worth the trouble reflecting about”.
Reflection
Invites us to go deep into ourselves. We see the truth that is inside our inner selves.
Secondary reflection
IS the realization of the unity of the situation and the individual which provides us with a holistic view of reality.
Secondary reflection
From the Greek word “logos”, which has a variety of meanings including word, thought, idea, argument, account, reason, or principle.
Logic
Comes from the Greek words “episteme” which can be translated as “knowledge” while “logos” can be translated as “argument” or “reason”.
Epistemology
It is primarily concerned with what we can know about the world and how we can know it.
Epistemology
from the Greek word “meta” which means beyond while “physikon” which means nature.
Metaphysics
Study of the nature of reality, of what exists in this world, what it is like, and how it is ordered.
Metaphysics
Cognitive branches of Philosophy
Logic, Epistemology, Metaphysics
from the Greek word “ethos” which means character and also called moral philosophy. the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong.
Ethics
Is the study of fundamental questions about the state, government, politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority.
Politics
from the Greek word “aesthetikos” which means perceptive of things and also spelled esthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and taste.
Aesthetics
It is closely related to the philosophy of art, which me concerned with the nature of art and the concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated.
Aesthetics
normative branches of philosophy
Ethics, politics, aesthetics
