Doing Philosophy Flashcards
(22 cards)
It is the concern of the logician
Reasoning
It is really only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in every human being to know what is real
Metaphysics
He was the first philosopher to devise a logical method
Aristotle
It is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations including sublime, comic, tragic, pathetic, and ugly
Aesthetics
They started to indulge in feverish philosophical speculation
The Western Thinkers
He said everything is water.
Thales
Philosophy is called a “science” because?
The investigation is systematic
It is a genuine sympathy and an understanding of all the most diverse points of view
Holistic Perspective
In attaining wisdom there is a need for?
Emptying
He is a good example of a metaphysican who draws the sharpest possible contrast berween reality and appearance
Plato
Things about us change so rapidly today that we forget how much we owe to the past. *this importance of aesthetics is?
It brings us in touch with our culture
He is a German philosopher, who argues that oir tastes of judgements regarding beauty, work in connection with one’s own personal experience and culture
Hans-Georg Gadamer
It deals with nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge (Soccio 2007)
Epistemology
It explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions
Ethics
It is more important to find a general law according to which particular facts can be understood or judged
Deduction
Deduction’s advocates are called?
Rationalists(e.g. Rene Descartes)
Whatever is is; and whatever is not is not; everything is what it is.
Principle of Identity
Philosophy investigates things, not by using any other laboratory instrument or investigative tools, neither on the basis of supernatural revelation, otherwise it becomes theology;
Natural Light of Reason
Literally means to leave everything to God who is Bathala in the vernacular
Bahala Na
To live an abundant life, one must pursue ones desires and inner self.
Abundance is not what we keep but what we give away
He is the founder of a movement known as Stoicism. Also one of the successors of Aristotle
Zeno of Citium
They began diminishing philosophical activity.
Asian Thinkers
