UBCORE

• ARISTOTLE

  "All knowledge comes from sense experiences"
• OSHO:

  "Purify your love and it becomes prayer. Purify your intelligence and it becomes wisdom"
• Aristotle believed that among the different existing beings in this world, the human person is place at the top of the hierarchy. 
• Osho believed that those people who are focusing too much on their physical satisfactions than on acquiring knowledge are actually debasing themselves to lower beings like irrational animals. 
• The man has been endowed with the capacity to order and classify.
• Man has memory and imagination.
• Man has this natural inclination towards thinking in order. 
• That the object of man's intellect is the truth (adequatio)
• That the object of man's will is good/beautiful
• •Homo narandus - narrator of the meaning of existence
• •Perennial search - never-ending search for the meaning of everything
• •It comes from the two greek words; philein means "to love" and sophia means "wisdom".
• •Philosophy is a love of wisdom.
• •Philosophers are lovers of wisdom.
• •Pythagoras coined the term philosophy
• Pythagoras

  according to him, a man is  a friend, and eventually, a lover of wisdom.
• ALTRUISTIC EMOTIONS

  It can be considered as the energy in motion.
• PHENOMENON

  It is to be considered as man' experience of a thing as it appears to him. 
• JOSEPH FLETCHER:

  In order to have  better understanding of the concept of "lover", it is necessary to discuss first the three types of love:
• EROTIC LOVE

  sexual love that exists normally between a man and a woman; a man between a man; and a woman between woman
• FILIAL LOVE

  the love between a parent and a child, and between brothers and sisters
• AGAPEIC LOVE

  refers to one's  care and concern towards others; best example is Christian love
• SOCRATES:

  "To know the good is to do the good."

  A person can only know the good if he is in the ight mind. And having a right mind would mean that a person will put into action all the things that he knows is right and proper. 
• Yin and Yang

  •Chinese philosophy, it means there is always a balance in nature.
• •Yin stands for a constellation located at the nrth side of a hill and denotes shade, darkness, cold, negativeness, weakness, femaleness, etc.
• According to the Taoist philosophers, In order to have an interaction with these two opposing principles, a third principle is needed in order to provide the basis and a context for its relation. 
• The great contribution of Lao Tzu was is rcognitio of the Tao as the basis for the interaction of the yin and yang. 
• The followers of Taoism believed that in order for a human person to find peace and contentment, each and everyone should follow the Tao or the Way of Nature
• Scala Natura (Ladder of Nature)
• Lawrence Blum

  "In friendship," he continues, "one desires and acts for the good of the friend, not simply because he is another human being but precisely because he is one's friend."
• Man is oftentimes afraid of learning new things. 
• He does not want changes and innovations especially when it comes to broadening and the deepening knowledge.
• All of us have the tendency to just take what is useful and practical to the point of forgetting the ideal. 
• Rene Descartes

  •He purported the idea "Cogito, ergo sum, " meaning "I think therefore iam."
• Rene Descartes

  •He eventually became the Father of Modern Philosophy
• Socrates

  •"My wisdom consists in accepting that I knew nothing."
• Socrates

  •"An unexamined life is not worth living."