1: what is philosophy

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  • Genuine philosophical attitude
    • Searching and critical
    • Open-minded and tolerant — willing to look at all sides of an issue without prejudice
  • Philosophy is a process of reflecting on and criticizing our most deeply held conceptions and beliefs
  • Sage
    Someone who has attained the wisdom which a philosopher seeks
  • Philosophy seeks to combine the conclusions of the various sciences and human experience into some kind of consistent world view
  • Classification of men and women in the world by Pythagoras
    • those that love pleasure
    • those that love activity
    • those that love wisdom
  • Philosophy is a rational attempt to look at the world as a whole
  • Philosophy is a set of views or beliefs about life and the universe, which are often held uncritically—informal sense of philosophy or “having” a philosophy
  • Philosophy
    • The word philosophy is derived from the Greek words philia (love) and sophia (wisdom) and means “the love of wisdom.”
    • The study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language
    • The rational attempt to formulate, understand, and answer fundamental questions
  • Branches of Philosophy
    • Logic
    • Metaphysics
    • Epistemology
    • Value theory
  • The focus in the study of Philosophy is to learn not what to believe, but how to think
  • 3 types of love according to Pyhtagoras
    Eros (romantic love)
    Philia (brotherly love)
    Agape (God love)