Death

• Socratic Method


  1. Assesses the character of the student through questions

  2. Gives students sets of problems, encourages the learner to break down each problem to its constituent elements, and clarify the solutions
• Ironic Process

  First process of the Socratic method, serves the learner to examine one's belief by freeing the mind of prejudgments and then by humbly accepting his or her lack of information and insight
• Maieutic Process


  Second process of the Socratic method, the process of making a person realize the full meaning of his or her thoughts that is employed after the first process has cleared the mind of the learner of ignorance, and then draws truth out of the learner's mind
• Expository Method


  Answers the student's direct or implied questions, fills the void ignorance (absence of one's own knowledge) with information, and proceeds by analogy and illustration, clearing the ground for exposition by demonstrating that some of the beliefs hitherto held by the students are irreconcilable with other beliefs or assumptions
• Contemplation


  Mind is connected to the absolute and immutable ideas, very important in the life of humanity because this is the mortal human being to free himself or herself from his or her space-time confinement, means doing good in life
• Plato's Theory of Immortality


  The physical human body is the source of endless trouble to us by the mere requirement of food, being liable also to diseases overtaking and impeding us in the search after true being, Physical body causes turmoil and confusion in our inquiries
• Actuality and Potentiality


  Everything in nature seeks to realize itself to develop its potentialities and finally realize its actualities, Actuality refers to the complete and mature form of a creature or thing
• Entelechy


  Greek word for 'to become its essence', A child strives to be an adult, a seed strives to be a tree. It is the potentiality to be changing
• Nietzsche's Higher Self


  Realizing one's "higher self" means fulfilling one's loftiest vision and noblest ideal
• Schopenhauer's View


  Unique persons are responsible for their own existence, Unless we become ourselves, life is meaningless, Will is ultimately without purpose, therefore, it cannot be satisfied, Suffering is caused by desire and to alleviate it, we should put an end to desire
• Heidegger's View


  Existence is demonstrated in care, Care is understood in terms of limited temporality, which ends death, Only by living through the nothingness of death in anticipation can one accomplish authentic existence
• Sartre's Existentialism


  The human person desires to be God, a being that has its sufficient ground in itself, For the atheist, since the God does not exist, they have to bear the consequences of this, The human person is entirely responsible for his or her existence, Absolute freedom and responsibility are the access to authentic living, The human person who tries to escape obligations are living in bad faith
• Sartre's Dualism


  En sol (in-itself) - signifies the permeable and dense, silent and dead, from them comes no meaning, only finds meaning through the human person

  Pour soi (for-itself) - the world has meaning according to what the person gives to it
• Jaspers' View


  To live an authentic existence always requires a leap of faith, Authentic existence is freedom and God, for freedom without God only leads to a person's searching for a substitute to God close to oneself
• Marcel's View


  Philosophy has the tension (the essence of drama) and harmony (the essence of music), Philosophy's starting point is a metaphysical "disease", A shift in perspective from the human level of experience to a transcendent realm, turning towards an "Absolute Thou" or a Transcendent Thou, Through this philosophical journey, one can ultimately arrive at a state of adoration or reverence