LESSON 1 Flashcards
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Student of Thales
Anaximander
Father of Western Philosophy
Thales
He said that the cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers
Pythagoras
He also proposed a system for the classification of plants and animals
Aristotle
Ideal society and government is ruled by wisdom and reason
The Republic
Ancient Greek philosopher, student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle
Plato
He believed that philosophy could enable man to live a life of happiness
Epicurus
Matter is composed of tiny particles called atoms
Democritus
boundless realm called
Apeiron
Water is the ultimate and fundamental element
Thales
He agreed with his teacher that everything comes from
a single, basic material
Anaximander
is a method of question and answer which aims to provoke the one being asked to think for himself or herself and to clarify his or her conceptions about what is asked.
Socratic Method
the process by which specific statements are analyze to reach conclusion or generalization.
Deductive Reasoning
5 Branches Of Philosophy
Methaphysics
Ethics
Aesthetics
Epistemology
Logic
As a normative study, it deals with norms or standards of right and wrong applicable to human behavior. It is considered as prescriptive as it prescribes what people ought to do rather than describes what people do
Ethics
which is derived from the Greek term ethos meaning “custom,”
Ethics
is traditionally defined as branch of physics that deals with the most general and abstract questions, such as those pertaining to the nature of existence, the categories of space and time, the existence of God, or the immortality
Metaphysics
Greek word aisthetikos, which means “sensitive” or “perceptive.”
Aesthetics
This branch of philosophy deals with various problems concerning knowledge.
Epistemology
comes from the Greek word epistēmē, which means “knowledge.”
Epistemology
is the branch of philosophy that looks into whether there are rules or principles that govern reasoning.
Logic
Greek word that means “Love”
Philo
Greek word that means “Wisdom”
Sophia
also defined as the science that by natural light of reason studies the first causes or highest principles of all things.
Philosophy