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• Pythagoras


  First to call himself Philosopher
• Introspection


  Examine your own thoughts
• Meta


  Going behind
• Episteme


  Knowledge
• Ethos


  Way of living
• Aesthetis


  Harmony
• Philosophy


  Study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence
• Philo


  Love
• Sophia


  Wisdom
• Epistemology


  Theory of knowledge especially with regard to its methods, validity, scope
• Metaphysics


  Branch of philosophy that deals with the knowing, substance, cause, identity, time and space
• Ethics


  Branch of philosophy that deals with moral principles
• Aesthetics


  The philosophical study of beauty and taste
• Embodied spirit


  The driving force behind all we think, say and do
• Human person


  Relates to the nature of human as animals
• Soul


  The animate life or the seat of the sense, desires, affections and appetites
• Spirit


  The part of us that connects to God
• Drives of the human person

  • Appetitive
  • Spiritual
  • Rational
• Vegetative soul


  Found in plants
• Sensitive soul


  Capable of sensation, growth, reproduction and feeding
• Rational soul


  Capable of thinking
• Philosophical views on the human person

  • Dichotomy (body and soul)
  • Trichotomy (body, soul and spirit)
  • Dualism (body and mind)
• Most notable ancient greek philosophers

  • Thales of Miletus
  • Heraclitus
  • Socrates
  • Plato
  • Aristotle
• Notable Christian philosophers


  • St. Augustine of Hippo
  • St. Thomas Aquinas
• Rene Descartes


  Father of Modern Western Philosophy who believed the mind and body are distinct but closely joined
• Characteristics of a philosopher

  • Curiosity
  • Dynamic
  • Independent
  • Determined
  • Doubtful
  • Logical
  • Humility
  • Teachable
  • Reasoning
  • Sense of Wonder