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• “The unexamined life is not worth living.” (Socrates)
• “He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” (Aristotle)
• “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” (Confucius)

   
• • Ethics - principles of conduct governing an individual or groupthe study of morality (ethicists)
• Chemists – use the term chemistry to refer to the study of the properties of chemical substances.

   
• Personal ethics – rules by which an individual lives his or her personal life
• Accounting ethics – refers to the code that guides the professional conduct of accountants.

   
• Ethics – investigation, both the process of investigating and the results of the investigation.
• Morality – is the subject matter itself.
• • Philosophy - study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence.
• philosophy - helps us understand who we are, why we are here, and where we are going.
• Philia meaning love

  Sophia meaning wisdom
• 1. Metaphysics - reality2. Epistemology - knowledge3. Axiology – values
• • Metaphysics - reality and existence philosophy of being
• Ontology – deals with the nature of existence
• Cosmology – inspects the origin and organization of the universe.
• • Epistemology - logic is a key dimension to epistemology
• Deductive logic – general to specific
• Inductive logic – specific to general

   
• • Axiology nature of values
• Ethics – studies human conduct and examines moral values
• Aesthetics – beauty, nature, and aesthetic experience, music, art, literature, dance, theater, and other fine arts
• Ethics

  ·        “the principles of conduct governing an individual or a group.”
• philopsophy - It is the “study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence” (New Oxford American Dictionary, 2005). It helps us better understand who we are, why we are here, and where we are going
• . Idealism - This is considered as the oldest philosophy of Western culture
• . Contemporary philosophies

  • Pragmatism also known as experimentalism (experience of things that work).
• Existentialism - appeared as a revolt against the mathematical, scientific philosophies that preceded it
• Analytic philosophy - it sought out to clarify and define philosophies. This began in post WWI era (the Vienna Circle) and studied the alienation between philosophy and science
• Realism – This can be considered as the antithesis of idealism, whereby “the Universe exists whether mind perceives it or not.”
• Neo-theism - This would date to the time of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), and is also known as theistic realism, whereby “God exists and can be known through faith and reason.”