Pholosophy Flashcards
The word philosophy came from two greek words what are they
Philos means love
sophia means wisdom
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, philosophy begins in wonder”
who said this
Socrates
There were two important groups of philosophers during those times who were they
The sophists and philosophos
It is to think or express oneself in a philosophical manner
Philosophizing
Methods of philosophizing
Phenomenology
existentialism
postmodernism
analytic tradition
logical and critical thinking
fallacies
Phenomenology on consciousness
is founded by
Edmund husserl
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
Phenomenology
Existentialism on freedom
is founded by
the event itself is the personality chosen cells as opposed to public or heard identity
Soren kierkegaard
The truth might be based on one’s attitude or outlook
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
Postmodernism on culture
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
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
What are the major questions that philosophers ponder
Question of reality
question of certainty
question of causality
question of ethics
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
Question of ethics
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
Question of causality
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
Question of certainty
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
Question of reality