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• Philosophy


  A systematic way of finding the answers to various questions about ourselves and about the world we live in
• Questioning existing knowledge and intuitions helps us get closer to the truth
• Philosophy


  Love of wisdom
• Critical thinking


  Thinking in which you question, analyze, interpret, evaluate, and make judgments about what you hear, say, read, or write
• Skills developed through philosophy

  • Argument skills
  • Communication
  • Analysis
  • Problem Solving
• Argument skills


  The thought process used to develop and present arguments
• Communication


  The ability to convey or share ideas and feelings effectively
• Analysis


  Ability to deconstruct information into smaller categories in order to draw conclusion
• Problem Solving


  A skill that will help you determine the source of the problem and find an effective solution
• Socrates


  • "An unexamined life is not worth living"
  • The first philosopher who engaged in a systematic questioning about the self
  • The true task of a philosopher is to know oneself
• Socrates


  • Dualistic composition of life
  • Self exists in two parts: body and soul
  • Identifies knowledge as Virtue; one must seek knowledge and wisdom before private interest
• Plato


  • Same as Socrates, believed in the dualistic composition of life (mind, and soul)
  • Added three compositions of soul: the rational soul, the spirited soul, and the appetitive soul
  • Believed in Justice and Virtue
• Augustine of Hippo


  • Agreed by the bifurcated nature of humans in line with the views of Plato but added the newfound doctrine of Christianity
  • The human body dwell in the world and is imperfect and continuously yearns to be divine
  • The soul is capable of reaching immortality in a spiritual bliss in communion with God
  • A person's identity is tied with the image of God
  • Every person must possess the right virtue and live one's life on earth in virtue in order for the soul to be in communion and bliss with the Divine when the Body dies
• Thomas Aquinas


  • Argued that God is the source of light of natural reason and the light of faith
  • Embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity
  • We do not encounter ourselves as isolated minds or selves, but rather always as agents interacting with our environment
  • Our self-knowledge is dependent on our experience of the world around us
• Individuality


  The idea that each person is unique and autonomous and responsible for her or his own thoughts, feelings, and actions
• Rene Descartes


  • "Cogito ergo sum" - I think therefore, I am
  • The fact that one thinks should lead one to conclude without trace of doubt that one exists
  • Rejected the splitting of corporeal (body) substance into matter and form
  • Rejected any appeal to final ends, divine or natural, in explaining natural phenomena
  • Rejected the need for divine being
  • Believed that origin of the self came from the mind
  • Our mind holds the essential components of who we are, including our consciousness, understandings, and feelings
• David Hume


  • Founding father of empiricism
  • Believed that knowledge can only be possible if it is sensed and experienced
  • Self is nothing else but bundle of impressions
  • Impressions are the basic objects of our experience or sensation
  • Ideas are copies of impressions and are not as vivid and lively as our impressions because they are not from direct experience
  • We develop our personality according to our different impressions/experiences since childhood