Philosophy

• Environmental Philosophy is concerned with the natural environment and human’s place within it.
• Environmental Ethics studies the environmental value as well as issues and policies to protect and sustain biodiversity.
• Intrinsic Value is a value an entity has for what it is or as an end.
• Instrumental Value is a value something has as a means.
• Anthropocentrism suggests humans are the most significant species on the planet.
• Enlightened Anthropocentrism suggests humans have a moral duty to set limits in order to protect future generations.
• Biocentrism suggests human beings share the same value to all other living beings and all life deserves moral consideration and standing.
• Deep Ecology suggests interrelationship among living organisms and every living thing depends on each other’s survival.
• Human Person and Environment are governed by intellect and free will.
• Intellectual Freedom is the ability to make choices and decisions based on your will and desires.
• Moral Responsibility suggests actions have consequences and freedom and responsibility are intertwined.
• Regret suggests that consequences can’t undo regret.
• Happiness and Personal Responsibility suggest that happiness is our end goal and money is only a tool to make us happy.
• Aristotle suggests that action, reason, and will are interconnected, influencing each other.
• St. Thomas Aquinas suggests that love is freedom and human beings are Moral Agent with the ability to differentiate right and wrong.
• Jean-Paul Sartre suggests that the human person desires to be God and existence precedes essence, therefore, freedom is the very core of authentic existence.
• Søren Kierkegaard, the Father of Existentialism, suggests that Bad Faith is when you live asking validations/demands from others and Abandonment is when there is no Deity.
• Political Freedom is the freedom to exist as an individual.
• The Age of Empiricism, which began in the Eighteenth Century, is characterized by the belief that humans are the most interesting in nature and humans mold the physical world.
• Rationalism, the belief that knowledge is reason and the objective truth, was prevalent during the Age of Naturalism.
• The Protestant Ethic (Faith and Reason) and the establishment of capitalism are the beginning of Western civilization.
• The 1898 Revolution in the Philippines saw Filipina women transcending social restrictions and starting to unify.
• Globalization and technological innovations have led to conflict in research and traditional living.
• The Transformation of Human Relations by Social System involves the sharing of knowledge through the internet and the challenge of identifying what is the truth.
• Policy making is dynamic and blends to the trend of society.
• The Economic Sphere involves technology-human labor and the decreasing labor force due to the increasing use of technology.
• Charles Babbage, a pioneer to the current computer, proposed the Difference Engine in 1820.
• The Social Realm is characterized by hard work, perseverance, and individual achievement.
• During the Seventh Century, there was an experimentation, observation, and application of mathematics in the natural sciences that set standards for philosophic inquiry.
• Joy Carol, in her book "Only a Woman Can Feel What It Is About Being a Woman", discusses the importance of women's friendships.
• Technology is a tool that can help us achieve a prosperous life and is a collaborative partner to us.
• During the Renaissance Period, there was a transition from superstitious explanations to empirical explanations.
• Copernicus's Copernican Revolution in the 1500s was a scientific reevaluation of the Paleolithic to Heliolithic period and marked the beginning of rationalistic intolerance.
• Filipino women were forced to become second-rate citizens in the Philippines due to the coming of Spaniards.
• Leonardo Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man visualized the proportions of the ideal human body proposed by Vitruvius and showed that humans can fi t to both the material and ideal world.
• Martin Buber stated that "A life of dialogue is a mutual sharing of our inner selves in the realm of interhuman".
• Marginalized groups are those society refuses to understand.
• On persons with disabilities (PWDs), it is important to remember that humans come first before disability.
• Martin Luther, a significant figure in the Modern Period, led the Protestant Reformation.
• Martin Heidegger stated that "We are a conversation" and that language is what creates the human world.