philosophy

• cause - why am I feeling this way.
• process- how can i overcome it?
• consequence- how it will affect my life? and the people around me?
• philosophy is really all about question and answers
• how many primary questions does philosophy have?
• what are the three branches of philosophy?
• what are the three branches of philosophy

  metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.
• philosophy is from combination of two Greek words which are "philo" and Sophia
• what is the meaning of "Philo" and "Sophia" in philosophy.

  philo means 'love', while Sophia means "wisdom"
• "philo" means love or affection while sophia means wisdom
• the word "philosopher" comes from the greek word philosophoi
• systematic investigation- we need to follow systematic process, we need to follow a particular procedure jumping into particular conclusion
• logic - philosophers use logic to analyze arguments and draw conclusions based on evidence
• critical thinking - philosophers think critically about ideas and beliefs, questioning assumptions and exploring alternative perspectives.
• philosophy is considered as the mother of all sciences
• philosophy is the way of life
• science- we need to conduct a step by step process before we reach a conclusion.
• philosophy is a persistent quest for knowledge and truth.
• philosophy is an intellectual activity that involves critical reflection on fundamental questions about existence, reality, values, reason, mind, and language.
• philosophy is concerned with understanding the nature of things, including the natural world, human beings, and society.
• Greece is the birthplace of philosophy in the west
• Socrates was known as the father of western philosophy
• Thales is the father of philosophy in the western civilization
• 'Philosophia' means "love of wisdom", but this does not mean that the people who engaged in it believed that they had wisdom, or that they believed they had any significant amount of it. Rather, what was so unusual about philosophia was that the people who engaged in it desired wisdom - or at least desired understanding - so much that they wondered whether the things they had been told to believe really constituted wisdom.
• Thales was the first individual who tried to reduce the multiplicity in the unity, everything is related to each other.
• religion rests on faith, while philosophy rests on reasons.
• what are the first two branches of philosophy?

  cognitive and normative branches
• cognitive branches is composed of three branches:

  metaphysics, epistemology, and logic.
• normative branches is composed of three branches:


  ethics, politics, aesthetics.
• cognitive- provide description of being and knowing
• normative- concerned standard of good.
• normative - provides guidance about how we ought to live
• Logic deals with reasoning and argumentation
• Epistemology deals with knowledge, how we know something, and its validity
• epistemology - theory of knowledge
• Metaphysics deals with questions that concern the nature of reality as a whole or what exists beyond physical phenomena.
• Aesthetics deals with beauty, art, and taste
• Political Philosophy deals with political systems, government, and justice
• it is a branch of philosophy that answers "where am I?"

  metaphysics
• meta- beyond