Chapter 3
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- Identify where stress emerges in your body and use mindfulness to release it. Because humans are complex and diverse, we all have distinct places where we store tension.
- Earliest Philosophical thoughts centered on the nature and observation of the cosmos
- Pre-Socratic thinkers are generally called
- Their primary goal was to know and discover the physical world through
- What is the fundamental attribute of being human?
- What was the starting point of Socrates anthropology?
- What did Socrates prioritize instead of the sense of the individual's worldly existence?
- Their contributions to philosophical anthropology prepared the way for the intellectual milieu of their time and subsequent generations.
- "The unexamined life is not worth living," he famously stated. The life that is not examined on a daily basis refers to a life lived mindlessly or systematically under the norms or conventions of others, without the individual constantly questioning if one truly needs to live by such norms or conventions.
- Like Plato, the Socratic concept of the human person is not as explicit as Aristotle's. True or False?
- They believed that without knowledge, one cannot live a moral life or behave correctly.
- Who said, "“Knowing the good entails doing the right thing"?
- Represents the guiding part toward the truth, weighing situations rationally and determining what is best or true based on the right kind of knowledge.
- Represents the noble part and is the heart of the soul.
- Represents the soul’s pleasure-centeredness and bodily fulfillment.
- Who said, “Knowing truly the good means doing the good habitually.”?
- It is someone who can make logical conclusions and go through the usual mental process of assessing the benefits and drawbacks of a course of action or decision without being influenced by emotions.
- “the in-between time,” refers to modern philosophers’ inclination to move from Aristotle’s philosophy to the Renaissance.
- Was the age of scientific discoveries and enlightenment. Science and mathematics advanced and progressed during this period.
- For him, despite the purposelessness of life, humans have an immanent capacity and inherent creativity to surpass life’s absurdities and difficulties.
- He provide the fundamental structure of human experience. He argued that knowledge is essentially based on perceptual experience.
- For him, the dualistic distinction between the “mind” and the “body” is the consequence of willful ignorance or flawed analysis.
- Is a phenomenological attitude that is free of empirical biases and scientific presuppositions.
- Refers to the reduction of the object of inquiry or observation to its essence (eidos). It means that one must be able to see the difference between reality (essential/necessary) and mere fantasy (non-essential/contingency)
- Refers to the psychological reduction of the object of inquiry in the consciousness in relation to the intersubjective realm of meaning.
- Well-known French thinker and Christian existentialist who advocated the phenomenological method. His philosophical career toward phenomenology was influenced by Husserl, but he made this method a bit simpler and more straightforward.
- It is a way of thinking that examines its subject by applying abstraction, generalization, impartiality, and analytic assessment. Its primary function is to identify, analyze, and solve problems objectively, without being involved in the actual process.
- It is a way of thinking that understands a subject while using concrete examples, representative models, tangible objects, and synthetic assessment. Its primary objective is to unite or recover the original and authentic experience.
- He was the first known self-professed thinker to declare himself an existentialist atheist.
- It is the idea that individuals create their own meaning in life.
- It is about understanding human existence
- Attitude on how one can make sense of human existence