Philo | Lesson 1

• When a person is stupefied, that person is placed in a position of confusion
• Stupefaction should lead one to question
• Questioning becomes indication that real and genuine knowledge does not end in awe
• Doubt pushes us to question many things to see that a greater reason is being veiled by what seems to appear before us
• Not all doubts are healthy, some could lead to skepticism
• Skepticism is wherein everything is put into inquiry without any goal of grounding and could lead to being myopic
• Myopic is a perspective that is in direct contrast to the spirit of philosophy
• A philosophical question that touches upon matters related to choice, meaning, and life
• Answers to philosophical questions are perennial
• Philosophus


  Everyone is a philosopher. The term is more of a challenge for anyone who dares to study philosophy
• Pythagoras' idea of a philosophus


  Someone who, in all his might pursues wisdom
• Philosophy


  • It is scientific in the sense that it observes the rigors of science
  • Its object is literally everything and every-thing
  • It studies any object through its ultimate causes and principles
  • It is done only by the use of reason, unalloyed and unadulterated
• The significance of philosophy is not on its demonstration of knowledge but in its capacity to focus on the possibilities that might be lost in the full understanding of what is being taught because that knowledge could be confirmation of one's ignorance
• The significance of philosophy is to recognize that the answer is not yet complete
• Sophie's World


  • It has two narrative sequences: one is the sequence of the unreal, that is, a Sophie Amundsen that exists in the world, and the other is the sequence of the real, that there is only one Sophie Amundsen and her father and mother
  • Sophie's world is a world of both the possible and impossible, and that as persons, like her, we also live in these zones of both the discernible and the indiscernible
  • What we can all learn from Sophie is the very question asked of her, "Who am I?"
• Roque Ferriols: 'Sapagkat ang Pilosopiya ay ginagawa.'