Pholosophy Flashcards

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Q

The word philosophy came from two greek words what are they

A

Philos means love
sophia means wisdom

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“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, philosophy begins in wonder”
who said this

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Socrates

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There were two important groups of philosophers during those times who were they

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The sophists and philosophos

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It is to think or express oneself in a philosophical manner

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Philosophizing

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Methods of philosophizing

A

Phenomenology
existentialism
postmodernism
analytic tradition
logical and critical thinking
fallacies

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Phenomenology on consciousness
is founded by

A

Edmund husserl

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This focuses on careful inspection and description of phenomena and appearances defined as an object of conscious experience that is that which we are conscious of

A

Phenomenology

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Existentialism on freedom
is founded by

the event itself is the personality chosen cells as opposed to public or heard identity

A

Soren kierkegaard

The truth might be based on one’s attitude or outlook

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It has come into vogue as the name for a rather diffuse family of ideas and trends that insignificant respects rejects challenges or aims to supersede modernity

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Postmodernism on culture

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It serves as path to freedom from half truths and deception. It helps us uncover bias and prejudice and open to new ideas not necessarily in agreement with previous

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Logic and critical thinking tools in reasoning

it has two basic types of reasoning inductive reasoning which means observation and deductive reasoning which means investigation

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What are the major questions that philosophers ponder

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Question of reality
question of certainty
question of causality
question of ethics

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It deals with the standards of right and wrong which define human behavior and formulate a set of standards and norms of acceptable and correct and good behavior which were applied to daily life

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Question of ethics

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These are questions regarding origin of things purpose or the explanation of a things function or it is usually done by examining events in the context of a cause and effect relationship

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Question of causality

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A central concept off this question is truth as well as knowledge which man is able to know examples are rationalism and empiricism and skepticism this question refers to perfect knowledge that is free from error and doubt

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Question of certainty

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This refers to the state of existence of things independent of human consciousness in the broadest sense it includes physical things that we see if you taste and smell as well things that we cannot easily perceive and comprehend the most general category is divided reality into concrete and abstract reality

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Question of reality

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