Introduction to Philosophy of the Human Person Mr.

Dave Marlowe Duran

Grade 11 STEM
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THESIS STATEMENTS

1. Philosophy is the art of living and dying

2. To know that you do not know that is true knowledge

3. Wonder is the starting point of philosophy; every existing being is its subject;
questioning is its essence.

4. Being and beings- The Great Circle of Being

5. The experience of pain and suffering is part of human existence

6. “What is done out of love is beyond good and evil.” –Friedrich Nietzsche

7. Man is condemned to be free

8. Life is absurd; how do we find meaning?

9. Love is the will to stretch one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s
spiritual growth. -Scott Peck

10. “Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us
desperately.” -Elie Wiesel