INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY Flashcards
• Considerer human person as “a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection and can consider itself as itself, the same thinking being in different times and places.
• He believed that every man will always search for the good. Everyone will have the capability of distinguishing the good from the bad. At the same time, everyone will always incline himself towards goodness. But the concept of goodness will always be in reference to pain.
John Locke
considers the human person as an autonomous self-regulating will who is capable of making moral decisions by and for himself.
every person has worth and dignity insofar as they are ends in themselves and are capable of making their own moral decisions
Immanuel Kant
A human being is able to to live and die for the sake of his ideals and values
He belived that human being is ultimate SELF-DETERMINING
Viktor Frankl
He believed that conscience enables the person to know what ought to be done in order to become his own self
Erich Fromm
_____ is the reason why the human person becomes aware of the goals of life, as well as the norms attainment of such goals
Conscience
He believed that what constitutes the human person as a moral subject is his conscience.
St. Thomas Aquinas
The human person discovers the ______ because of his conscience
Moral Law
He believes that human does not simply exist. Rather, he always decides what his existence will be and what he will become in the next moment
Viktor Frankl
For the moden people, the basis of morality does not anymore lie on the value of judgement rather, on measurement of _____ and ____
Pleaure and Pain
Why is there a need to redefine ethics?
Because the human being’s desire for happiness has led hin to do activities that are contrary to what he ought to do
What is even considered of ethics?
As a means of curing moral maladies that were afflicting the human kind
He is the one who called Ethics, the Supreme Philosophy
Plato
What is the meaning of Supreme Philosophy as called by Plato?
the science par excellence
Why it is called science par excellence?
Because ethics deals with the attainment of man’s highest good which is happiness
True or False?
Ethics is the ONLY discipline that deals with the attainment of the ultimate gial of a human person (Montemayor, 1995?
TRUE
True or False?
Confucious, Aristotle, and Plato held that philosophers must be the rules of people
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE?
Aristotle held that society must be ruled by the Philosopher-King
FALSE
- Plato is the one that held society must be ruled by the Philosopher-King
What is the golden maxim?
Salus populi est suprema lex
What is the meaning of “salus populi est suprema lex”?
the welfare of the people is the supreme law
Why does it need to teach young generations the necessary moral values?
so that they can become future leader-philosophy of the society
He believed that what constitutes the human person as a moral subject is his conscience
St. Thomas Aquinas
