Philosophy 1st Quarter Reviewer PDF
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This document is a reviewer for a philosophy course, covering topics like various perspectives on the human person in philosophy, and basic concepts of philosophy. The document outlines different branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics. It also introduces key philosophers and their concepts.
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**Philosophy 1^st^ quarter reviewer** **Philosophy** 2greek words - - **Philosophy** refer to **"love of wisdom"** - **Lovers of wisdom** Philosophers person engaged in philosophy **Philosophy reason** - **Plato** greek philosopher traced man's need to philosophized **Sense of...
**Philosophy 1^st^ quarter reviewer** **Philosophy** 2greek words - - **Philosophy** refer to **"love of wisdom"** - **Lovers of wisdom** Philosophers person engaged in philosophy **Philosophy reason** - **Plato** greek philosopher traced man's need to philosophized **Sense of wonde**r Plato - - **Rene Descartes** 15^th^ century French philophers **Doubt** Rene Descartes - - - **Karl Jaspers** 20^th^ century Swiss- german **Experience** Karl Jaspers - - - - **Love for wisdom** to have an insatiable desire for truth **Branches of Philosophy** 1. 2. - 3. 4. - 5. Students should consider importance of aesthetics because of: - - - **Holistic thinking** large-scale pattern in system - - **Partial thinking** specific aspects of a situation - - **Truth** an accepted statement - - **Proposition** about world reality - **Opinion** putative fact - **Claim** statement not evidently/ immediately known true **Fact** - - - - - **Opinion** - - - - **Conclusion** judgement based certain facts **Belief**s express conviction not clearly explain by fact **Explanation** provide reason why is it true **Fallacy** products of faulty reasoning **Kinds of fallacie**s **Ad hominen** attack out of the topic **Appeal to force** threat **Appeal to emotion** **Appeal to popular** **Fallacy of composition** true for whole, true of a part **Bias** one sided, affect people viewd and interpret ideas **opinion** influenced by biased **Kinds of biases** **Conflict of interest** connected has vested (bias to kuya or ate) **Cultural bia**s judge without knowing **Correspondence** set of belief, readily accept **Human person** **Man** general term commonly used refer to entire human race **Man** important subject in philosophy **Man** foremost goal of the discipline Human man a **species *homo sapiens sapiens*** or modern human beings **Person** much more complex term human being granted recognition of certain rights and responsibilities **Various perspective have emerge** **Biological perspectiv**e man part of natural world **Biological perspectiv**e significant product of evolution (charles darwin ) **Modern humans (homo sapiens sapiens)** one of most succesfully adapted species **Primates** closedly related to human **Bipedelism** highly developed hands smaller jaws **Primal instincts** human also share with other animal **Psychological perspective** human behavior / analyzing human nature **Mental facultie**s a. **Conscious** mind governs awareness **Unconscious** mind latent or repressed emotions b. c. d. e. **Enactivism** related theory **Enactivism** cognition arises through the interaction between organism and its environment **Economic perspective** mans ability to engage in productive activities **Economic perspectiv**e emerge 19^th^ century desired to posses wealth **Social and political perspective** nature is social and political animal **Social and political perspective** no individual is fully suffecient **Social and political** having integrated themselves into society **Theological perspectiv**e consider man as Gods creation **Theological perspective** special relationship with creator **Awareness of the self** unique traits of humans **Sentience** ability to feel and experience **Sentience** ability to perceive our surroundings using our senses **Self** refers to the quality makes human individual distinct from others **Various views adress the issue regarding the self** **The self as innate** self is a natural part of human being **The self as emergent** awareness of the self is gained through interaction with the world and other human being **The self as integrated and developing** self is composed of varied elements that change over time **Self** closely tied to ideas of identity and personhood **Identity** persist through time/ it may change **identity** distinct personally of individual **Personal identity** person unique physical characteristics **Personhood** recognition of human as distinct entity **Person** have various notions **The person as an "autonomous being**" "reasoned free choice" - **The person as an "autonomous being"** someone who give laws to himself/ herself **Cornelius castoriadis** explain etymology of the word greek word ***[auto]*** **Auto** [ ] means "I" or "myself" **Nomos** means "law" **The person as a "unified individual"** inherent capacity to function as a person **The person in relation to other human being** becomes a person through interaction with other human beings **Rationality** state of being reasonable and ability to solve problems and make decisions **The person as a transcendent being** **Transcendenc**e latin **prix** **trans** means **beyond** **Scandare** means **to climb** **Human person** is in a constant state means always moving, changing, and evolving **Philosophy and spiritual** **Soul** this is who we are ( personality, characteristics) **Spirit** spiritual give by god **Spiri**t immortal and noncorporeal essense of man **Christianity** belive man is the only being with a soul **Jainism and hinduism** recognized the other living beings also posses souls **Animistic such as shintoism** nonliving thing posses soul **Embodiment** central concept in discussing the nature of the human - **Embodied cognition** man is able to perceive and experince through his physical body - **Christian doctrine** hold that spirit is created by God and not embodied in human being **Spirit** essential element for salvation of mankind departed spirits from dead and received judgement of god **Plato** belived human spirit is composed of three parts 1. 2. 3. Man can only function when the 3 parts of soul are working together **Aristotle** rejected platos explanation **Aristotle** believed **soul is not independent of the body** but integrated into human being - **Matte**r components that make up an object **Form** structure and arrangement of matter give rise to object itself **Mind body problem** how mental interact with phsical body **Physicalism** physical processes determine the state of the mind **Idealism** mental processes and thoughts are the only reality **Monis**m argues human being composed neither physicalb nor mental (neutrala) **Dualism** distinctiveness of the physical and mental nature of man **Avicenn**a islamic philosopher **Avicenn**a argued **self awareness and consciousness exist even body is deprived senses** **Rene descartes** propose mind and body exist as two separate entities **mind and body** exist as two separate entities **Monomental conclusion** "I think, therefore I am" **St. Thomas Aquinas** believed soul is the first actuality of the body - **St. Augustine** considered soul to be the driving force that governs body and define human person **Sou**l used to describes the physical -spiritual man and the wholeness of the spirit and the body **Spirit** often refer to spiritual nature of man **Trichotomic view** man is composed of 3 essential part **body, soul, and spirit** - **Dichotomic view** no distinction the spirit and soul - **Psychosomatic unity** body and spirit are inseparable and integrated **Theology** study of god **Theism** belief existence of a god **Monotheism** single god **Following characteristics** **Omniscience** god all knowing **Omnipotence** all powerful **Omnipresence** ever-present **Benevolence** perfectly good,just, and all loving **Divine simplicity** he is goodness itself **Eternal** god is timeless has no beginning or end **Revealed theology** analysis of sacred text **Natural theology** substatiate the existence of god **Natural theology given rise several arguments** **Ontological argument** able to conceive notion of **SUPREME BEING** (convince) **Teleological argument** purpose a god would play in the universe being necessary VITAL **Cosmological argument** nature of exixtence in the universe origin universe \\ **Principle of sufficient reason** lahat may reason **Kalam cosmologica**l argument god is the cause that brought about beginning of universe **Moral argument** mans ethical nature (paguugali) **Agnosticism** belief methaphysical god inherentle unknowable (neutral) **Atheism** rejection or non belief of god **Redemptive salvation** saving faith **Divine providenc**e blessing, miracles **Immanent or transcendent** god pressense in universe **Immanence** manifesting himself in the world as unique entity **Transcendence** existing outside material world presense is beyond / separate from physical reality **Panentheistic** god is both beyond magkasama ang immanence at transcendence **Pantheistic** under transcendence god I s an all encompassing pressence **Pandeistic** god was distinct entity but lost his stae when transforms himself in universe **Emmanuel Kant** proposed human **transcendence is based on rationality** **Jean Paul Sartre** ability to individual meaningfully **relate to people and interact**