What is Philosophy

Cards (21)

  • Who is the Philosopher who was coined by the word "Philosophy" and by the Ancient Greek mathematician?
    Pythagoras
  • The Greek word "philia" means?
    love
  • The Greek word "sophia" means?
    wisdom
  • Philosophy comes the Greek word ______ and ______.
    philia and sophia
  • A Philosopher is a love of wisdom
  • Sophia is distinguished into 3 types, Name the 3 types of Sophia.
    Opinion, Technical knowledge, Scientific Knowledge
  • In Sophia, Opinion means?
    Doxa
  • In Sophia, Technical knowledge means?
    techne
  • In Sophia, Scientific Knowledge means?
    episteme
  • This means it is the lowest kind of knowledge.
    Doxa
  • This means it is a kind of knowing that has grounded or justified assertions.
    Episteme
  • This means it is the knowledge of the means-end of objects, that is the "how" things are made and done.
    Techne
  • This is the highest form of knowledge, also called the "encounter of nothing".
    Wisdom
  • Wisdom is a kind of knowledge that thinks about itself as its ______ __ _______ or ____-_________.
    object of thought or self-knowledge
  • Name the 3 types of Philia.
    Agape, Eros, Philia
  • This type of Philia is the kind of love that is unconditional, a kind of love that is paradigmatically expressed to parents to their children.
    Agape
  • This type of Philia is the kind of love that is expressed by lovers. Hence, the term "erotic love".
    Eros
  • This type of Philia is friendship.
    Philia
  • This means "the other self".
    Friend
  • How to be friends?
    to know what is pleasant and good to each other and to seek for the same pleasant and good thing one experiences
  • This is called a "way of life".
    friendship of wisdom