Philosophy

• Philosophy came from two greek words "Philo" and "Sofia" which means "love" and "wisdom"
• Life – The condition that one lives, existence.
• Death – When our physical bodies cease to exist.
• Afterlife – A belief that once we die on earth, there is another life after death.
• Christians believe in the promise of Jesus Christ that there is eternal life.
• Buddhists on the other hand believe in samsara
• Existential Crisis is questioning your purpose in life
• existentialism, a philosophical movement that urges the humanperson to confront and make them aware of their existence.
• Simone de Beauvoir would say, “It is a philosophy yet does not want to stay enclosed in books and schools.”
• Existentialism should be understood as an attitude towards understanding the mysteries of life.
• Albert Camus is a famous literary writer and existentialist.
• Albert Camus wrote The Myth of Sisyphus,
• Albert Camus calls it absurdity: the futile search for meaning in this meaningless world.
• Søren Kierkegaard is one of the recognized precursors of the existentialmovement
• Friedrich Nietzsche is another philosopher who has been associated with Existentialism
• Death should be our driving passion to understand thelife we have and how we should always live life to the fullest with the little time we have in this world.
• Friedrich Nietzsche who said, “he who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”
• Viktor Frankl is a psychiatrist who experienced firsthand how it was to be a prisoner of the Nazis during the second world war.
• philosophy means the love of wisdom
• to philosophize means to consider all things in a study or reflection.
• Gabriel Marcel would say that we live in a broken world
• We can resolve the worlds brokenness by reflection
• Primary reflection is about perceiving things or experiences objectively
• Secondary reflection aids us to understand deeply the world we live in, this invites us to look beyond what the eyes can perceive.
• A problem is something external to us that can be determinatively understood and solved with a generalizable technique.
• A mystery is something in which we are inextricably involved. It has roots deep within us, but it also reaches beyond us.
• Doing philosophy means not putting yourself in a box, you must either think deeper inside of the box or outside the box.
• Elenchus is a method wherein a belief is carefully analyzed and dissected through questioning in order to determine its truth value
• Socrates was a Greek philosopher and one of the main figures in the western world.
• The life of Socrates shows the importance, power, and imminent danger of asking questions.
• Professor Rob Reich of Stanford University emphasized 3 essential components of the Socratic Method
• Socratic Method uses questions to examine student’s personal values, principles, and beliefs.
• It demands a classroom environment characterized by productive discomfort
• Socratic Questioning is better used to demonstrate the complexity, difficulty, and especially uncertainty about our life and the world.
• Martin Heidegger, a German Philosopher, believes that we shall reach self-actualization if we live an authentic life.
• Martin Heidegger - Wrote the book Being and Time
• Facticity pertains to the reality we are thrown into. 
• Facticity - things we cannot change in our life
• Fallenness pertains to what other people are doing around you, so you 'fall' into tasks by default. 
• Fallenness - things we can change