PHILO

• Logic


  study of reasoning
• Deductive Logic


  general to specific
• Inductive Logic


  particular to general
• Analytical Statement


  predicate is contained in the subject
• Synthetic Statement


  the predicate adds something to the subject
• A priori statement


  not dependent on experience
• Aesthetics


  study of art and beauty
• Dialectical Method


  Our philosophy is shaped by the questions we ask
• Bernard Lonergan


  Canadian Christian philosopher

  to draw out ideas from people through questions
• primary task of the philosophy of the human person

  to recover the questions related to our humanity
• A posteriori statement


  dependent on experience
• Speculative Method

  knowledge that is sought for its own sake
• Rational Method

  uses reason to understand and analyze reality
• Analytic Method

  to clarify the meaning of language and the concepts we use
• the hero Rizal


  believed that native language represents the identity of a nation
• Prescriptive Method

  to establish standards by which we judge concepts and criteria and evaluate conduct
• Historical Method


  tracing the concepts and values of a given period
• Synthetic Method


  to synthesize the thoughts or concepts of different philosophers
• Epistemology


  the study of knowledge
• Rationalism


  knowledge through the mind
• Empiricism


  knowledge through the senses
• Worldview


  grid and filter through which we look at everything
• A Machine


  focuses on human being's ability to perform or do tasks
• An Animal


  sees human beings mainly as part of the animal kingdom
• An Economic Being


  economic forces are what truly motivates human beings
• A Sexual Being


  sexual is the key to understanding human beings