philo

• philosophy

  academic disciplined concerned with investigating the nature of significant of ordinary and scientific beliefs
• philosophy

  investigating the legitimacy of concepts by rational argument concerning their implications, relationships as well as reality, knowledge moral judgement, etc.
• socrates

  concerned with the problem of the self
• socrates

  the true task of the philosopher is to know the self
• socrates

  the unexamined life is not worth living
• socrates

  corrupting the minds of youth
• socrates

  method is to make people think, seek, and ask agin and again
• plato

  3 components of soul
• plato

  rational soul- reason & intellect to govern affairs
• plato

  spirited soul- emotions should be kept at bay
• plato

  appetitive soul- base desires {food, drink, sleep, sexual needs, etc.}
• plato

  love is a way of knowing and realizing the truth- a process
• st. augustine

  spirit of man in medeival philosophy
• st. augustine

  man is a birfucated nature
• st. augustine

  part of man dwells in the world (imperfect) and yearns to be with the divine
• st. augustine

  god is the source of reality and truth
• st. augustine

  the cause of sin or evil is an act of man's freewill
• st. thomas aquinas

  man= matter + form
• st. thomas aquinas

  matter[hyle] common stuff that makes up everything in the universe
• st. thomas aquinas

  form[morphe] essence of substance or thing
• st. thomas aquinas

  the body of the human is similar to animals/ objects, but what makes a human is his essence
• st. thomas aquinas

  the soul is what makes us humans
• rene descartes - he believed that the mind and body are separate and that the mind is the source of all knowledge
• rene descartes - father of modern philosophy
• rene descartes - was considered one of the rationalist
• rene descartes - the only thing one can't doubt is existence of the self
• david hume - one can only know what comes from senses & experiences (empericist)
• david hume - the self is not an entity beyond the physical body
• david hume - the self is nothing but a bundle of impression and ideas
• immanuel kant - everything starts with perceptions/ sensation of impressions
• immanuel kant - there is a mind that regulates these impressions
• immanuel kant - time, space, etc. are ideas that one can't find in the world, but is built in our minds
• gilbert ryle - the self is a collection of thoughts and feelings that we have about ourselves
• gilbert ryle - denies the internal, non-physical self
• gilbert ryle - what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day-to-day life
• gilbert ryle - the self is not an entity; one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that we use to refer to the behaviors that we make
• maurice merleau ponty - phenomenologist who says the mind-body bifurcation is an invalid problem
• maurice merleau ponty - mind and body are inseparable
• maurice merleau ponty - one's body is his opening toward his eexistence to the world
• john locke - moral good depend on conformity or non-conformity of a person's behavior towards some law. there are three laws