Lesson 2

• " Therefore, if one begins to think, one begins to philosophize"
• Philosophical questions - reflect or to evaluate
• when we ask philosophical question we are engaged in a "philosophical reflection"
• Socrates (469-399 B.C.E)

  • "know thyself"
  • teacher of plato
• Socratic Method - Based on asking, art of reasoning
• Plato - student of Aristotle

  • To know what is real requires much intellectual effort and rational ability.

  •Warned that there are things that deceive, confuse, or mislead in this world
• Martin Heidegger - philosophical question "lead into the totality of beings" and "inquires into the whole."
• G.W.F Hegel - Finite world is a reflection of mind"
• Karl Marx - COMMUNISM, UTOPIA. ALL WORKERS UNITE
• "Minima Maxima Sunt" which literally means the smallest things are the most important.