L1 | INTRO TO PHILO OF HUMAN PERSON

• PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON

  • initiation to the activity and process of philosophical reflection as a search for a synoptic vision of life.
  • engaging in philosophy means engaging in contemplation
  • reflective activity is suspending who you are, what you believe, and what you value
  • temporarily putting aside your own opinions and preconceptions
• PHILOSOPHY CAME FROM THE GREEK LANGUAGE:

  • "philos" - love
  • "sophia" -wisdom
• PHILOSOPHY

  • love for wisdom
  • Science or discipline which uses human reason to investigate the ultimate causes, reasons, and principles which govern all things.
• EMERGENCE OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

  • concerned with uncovering the truth through systematic argumentation and theory.
  • Greater emphasis on the use of reason rather than faith, and an increased focus on man as an individual.
• 2 PROMINENT GROUPS:

  1. sophists
  2. philosophos
• SOPHISTS

  • teachers who travelled throughout Greece and taught people who wished to learn.
  • Excellent public teachers who trained their students to win each and every argument they participated in.
• PHILOSOPHOS

  • believes that teaching is more than just training people to win arguments.
  • Teaching and learning should be an opportunity to learn the truth of all things in this world, and real wisdom should strive to achieve truth aside from knowledge
• Standard to be wise (knowledgeable in terms of ever discipline possible)

  1. Continuous inquire
  2. Seek to understand
  3. learn
• NOTABLE THINKERS

  1. pythagoras
  2. heraclitus
  3. democritus
  4. diogenes of sinope
  5. socrates
  6. plato
  7. aristotle
• PYTHAGORAS

  • "silence is better than unmeaning words"
  • mathematician and scientist, credited with the formulation of the Pythagorean Theorem.
  • One of the founders of philosophy
• HERACLITUS

  • "there is nothing permanent except change"
• DEMOCRITUS

  • "by desiring a little, a poor man makes himself rich"
  • among the first to propose that matter is composed of tiny particles called atoms
• HERACLITUS

  • "there is nothing permanent except change"
• DIOGENES OF SINOPE

  • "if you find no pleasure in life, try to find the meaning at least"
  • vocal critic of well-known philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle
  • He was said to have lived like a beggar.
• SOCRATES

  • "the only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing"
  • considered the foremost philosopher of ancient time
  • formulated the Socratic Method
• PLATO

  • "no one is more hated than he who speaks the truth"
  • Student of socrates
• PLATO'S SIGNIFICANT IDEAS

  • theory of forms
  • dialectic
  • founding of the academy
• PLATO'S ACADEMY

  • platonic academy
• ARISTOTLE

  • "happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence"
  • prominent student of Plato.
  • His studies in logic led to the formulation gave rise to deductive reasoning