Philosophy

2 Greek words (philosophy)

• Philos (love) Sophia (knowledge)

• Philo (love) Sophie (wisdom)

• Philos (love) Sophia (Wisdom)

• Wala yun lang

attributed the discovery of philosophy and the first to use the term ”philosopher

• PYTHAGORAS

• Philosopher

• PHILOSPHY

• Greece

this is a distinction between philosophy and other social sciences

• Highest Principle

• Science

• Study of All things

• Rationalism

Nature and Functions of Philosophy

• as a discipline is encompassing, it never confines itself to a portion of human experience or to a certain aspect of human phenomenon

• Concerns itself with the roots of disciplines such as art, science, and even religion

• no one separate herself/himself from philosophy because when someone starts anything about his/her environment, you are already philosophizing.

• philosophers do not ask if the conduct or the administration of euthanasia but instead they question the morality of the act and the ethical standard from which such act was based

deals with the true nature of reality

• Metaphysics

• EPISTEMOLOGY

• rationalism

• Empiricism

“Cogito, ergo sum-I think, therefore I am”

• Aristotel

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

• Plato

Immanuel Kant

• a German philosopher considered as one of the most important thinkers of Europe contended that beauty and art were both objective and universal which means that there things beautiful and pleasing to everyone’s eyes

• who conceived the concept of mind being a tabula rasa (empty tablet/blank sheet) upon which could write and store his/her ideas based on experiences and learn out of those experiences

• strongly argued that experience could be the cause of illusions, and was therefore doubtful

• in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, he eliminated the idea of having innate knowledge (in born knowledge)

aesthetics

• deals with the nature and appreciation of art, beauty, and good taste

• derived from the Greek word aisthetikos which means “sense of beauty

• sometimes spelled as esthetics, encompasses all the responses people may elicit from all forms of art, be it negative or positive

• only anchored in one’s ability to criticize and appreciate art using sense perception

One may consider buying expensive designers bag, clothes simply because these are

• status symbols

• aesthetics

• norms

• values

primarily concerned with uncovering truth through systematic argumentation and theory

• Greece

• Western

• Eastern

• Pre socratic