THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY

• • Ideas, views, principles, perspectives, or beliefs
  • The activity of reasoning
  • An academic course or degree.

  PHILOSOPHY
• • philosophy in life, specific nature of beliefs and principles

• The activity of reasoning

  Correct and Incorrect forms of reasoning, defensive strategy. unwelcome argumentation, pilosopo
• study of reasoning skills and semenaries

  an academic course or degree
• importance of philosophy

  Contributes to social transformation.

  Expands the boundaries of knowledge.

  Provides a holistic view of life.

  Contributes to the development of some disciplines.

  Provides ethical guidelines for the use of technology.
• philo means love


  sophia means wisdom
• philosopher

  • lover of wisdom or one who loves wisdom
• philosopher


  first used by phythagoras
• preferred to be called philosopher than

  sopist
• philosophers

  plato, pythagoras
• sophist

  wise man or one who knows
• wise person


  one who is aware of what hr/she knows and what he/she does not know
• wise person

  aware of her/his own ignorance
• wise person


  must have strong reasons to have these true beliefs, things that are valuable in life
• truth

  knowing what we know
• philosophy

  search of truth
• philosophers

  bearers of truth
• bearers of truth

  philosophers, statements proposition, sentences, beliefs
• fact


  makes a certain statement true
• emperical truth


  statements can be tested through observation and experimentation
• germs and diseases

  emperical truth
• rational truth


  established by means of reason
• triangle has 3 sides

  rational truth
• synthetic truth


  extends our knowledge, synthetic truth
• the table is brown

  synthetic truth
• analytic truth


  does not extend our knowledge
• all bachelors are unmarried

  analytic truth
• contingent truth


  one that is true, but could have been false
• i graduated college with a degree of nursing

  contingent truth
• necessary truth


  truth are always true
• family matters, love, logical truth, personal information

  necessary truth
• public truth


  known directly with everyone
• private truth


  truth comes from mental state
• my skin is cut and bleeding

  public truth
• im greatly in pain and hurt

  private truth
• subjective truth


  dependent in attitudes or interest
• objective truth

  factual judgement
• rnb is the best kind of music

  subjective truth
• rnb is one of the major kinds of music

  objective truth
• universal truth

  acknowledge by everyone