Chapter 2

• Ideas that are based on stories

  Mytheme
• Ideas that are based on reason


  Matheme
• Philosophy’s method cannot anymore be a

  hybrid or a pseudo
• Philosophy’s method must be

  consistent
• The question on method and its connection to philosophy’s pursuit has led philosophers to

  develop an original system
• Theory of reality and the nature of being.


  Ontology
• Theory of Knowledge.


  Epistemology
• Theory of what is right or wrong.


  Ethics
• Theory about the nature and valuation of what is beautiful.


  Aesthetics
• Theory of correct reasoning and sound thinking.


  Logic
• A person is called every day to reason and to decide on matters that actually demand his/her better judgement.


  Logic
• In philosophy, the person does not just accept things as they are but asks questions to the point of gathering and uncovering the best argument possible.


  CRITICAL THINKING
• Thinking is not just embodying the truth but also embodying that truth-for-you which you believe in.


  INDEPENDENT THINKING
• To actively anticipate and prepare for potential objections in their arguments or positions and to execute contingent plans if one fails.


  PROACTIVE THINKING
• It provides the necessary framework of thought and clarifies the actual range of thought.


  CONTEXTUAL THINKING
• Great thinkers are also master stylists because they can represent the truth in a manner where they could be seen in a different light.

  CREATIVE THINKING
• To think is always to think in close collaboration with others. It is also a manifestation of the relational aspect of thought, communion, and participation.


  COLLABORATIVE THINKING
• It explores diverse manners and ways by which truth can be achieved and generated.


  EPISTEMOLOGY
• Truth is the adequation between what is outside the mind (reality) and inside the mind (subject).


  THEORY OF REALISM
• The basis of truth is always related to the subjective intervention of any phenomenon. Hence, the truth for one person may not be the truth for the other.


  THEORY OF RELATIVISM
• Emphasizes that truth should have practical consequences. Practical consequences have to be beneficial in order to justify the truthfulness.


  THEORY OF PRAGMATISM
• THEORY OF PHENOMENOLOGY is founded by a German philosopher named


  Edmund Husserl
• Usually referred to as the theory of appearances that is essential to objective or empirical knowledge.

  THEORY OF PHENOMENOLOGY
• Axiomatic reasoning mediates the world through the principle of mathematics, noting the implications of principles on reality and truth.


  THEORY OF AXIOMS
• The term "axiom" originated from the Greek word "axios," meaning?


  worthy