Prelim Flashcards
Mother of all disciplines
Philosophy
Philo means?
Love
Sophos means
Wisdom
The ancient philosophers
Socrates
Aristotle
Plato
The famous quote of Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living
Know thyself
Socrates
greek philosopher. who believed. that philosophy had a very imporlant role to play in the lives of the people.
Socrates
self consists of dichotomous realms:
Physical and ideal realm
What is physical realm
Changeable, imperfect, transient
What’s is ideal realm
Unchanging, eternal, immortal
believed that the self is synonymous with the soul
Plato
“The Self is an immortal soul in a mortal perishable body”
Plato
Three part soul
The rational, spirited and appetite soul
Body and soul are not two separate elements
Aristotle
highest human. good.
Eudaimonia
Kinds of soul acc. To Aristotle
The vegetative
Sentient
The rational
Medieval philosopher
St. Augustine
St. Thomas Aquinas
African philosopher_ is regarded as a saint in the catholic church.
St. Augustine
the soul is what governs and defines the human person.
St. Augustine
Fitner of Natural Law Ethics
St. Thomas Aquinas
There is a reason why God exists
St. Thomas Aquinas