Philosophy

• philosophy

  • came from the Greek words "Philo"- love and "Sophia"- Wisdom
  • science of the logical foundation of all knowledge
• Philosophy is

  • Quest for knowledge of the material world
  • The search for the meaning
  • the search for "unattainable" truth
  • the endeavor to live the good life
• Literal definition- lover of wisdom
• essential definition- science of the ultimate awareness of things with response to their causes and effects
• Other definition- bridge that spans between the mysticism of RELIGION and materialism of SCIENCE
• Socrates

  • philosophy started with a simple process of wondering
  • simple act of asking questions
• Pythagoras- "for each door we open we find another door closed behind it"
• Aristotle

  • "every man desires to know"
  • philosophy leads man to understand of things (open man's intellectual craving)
• Thales

  • first ancient greek philosopher
  • first wonder the underlying principle of everything and everybody followed him
• Three kinds of greek people

  • eros-erasthai-lover of pleasure
  • philia- lover of wisdom
  • agape- lover of God
• Cosmocentric period

  • also called "ancient greek philosophy"
  • Cosmos= universe/the world
  • material world and world of the ideas
  • man is both physical and spiritual
• Theocentric period

  • the age of faith
  • theo- theis-Dei-Dios-God
  • God and faith is center of inquiry about truth
  • Beggining of So-called Age of Scholasticism
• Metaphysics- study of reality
• Epistemology- study of validity of human knowledge
• Ethics- study of morality of human act
• Cosmology- The science of universe
• Theodicy- philosophical study of God
• Logic- the science and art of correct thinking
• symbolic logic- an application of mathematical methods to the process of thought

  • conventional symbols to represent terms
  • propositions
  • relations
• Applied logic- applied to the study of natural sciences
• Natural logic- to judge correctly and reason validity about the affairs and interests in life
• Transcendental logic- inquiry into human knowledge for the purpose of determining what elements or factors in human thought are priori
• Pierre de la Ramee

  • criticized the nature of Aristotelian logic
  • introduced the three-fold activities of the mind
• "Philosophy is the umbrella of all sciences and referred to as the queen of sciences"
• Ludwig Wittgenstein

  • philosophy is not just a body of doctrine but an activity