POINTERS TO REVIEW IN PHILOSOPHY

WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY MEANING AND PURPOSE?

-Quite literally, the term "philosophy" means, "love of wisdom." In a broad

sense, philosophy is an activity people undertake when they seek to understand
fundamental truths about themselves, the world in which they live, and their
relationships to the world and to each other.

TYPES OF PHILOSOPHERS

A. ORAL PHILOSOPHERS – PHILOSOPHIES ARE TOUNGE

B. GREAT PHILOSOPHERS – LONG GONE, BUT THEIR PHILOSOPHIES ARE STILL MUCH
ALIVE
C. STREET PHILOSOPHERS – THEY WONDER TO SEEK NEW IDEAS
D. ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHERS – THEY STUDIED PHILOSOPHY IN SCHOOL
E. PROFESSIONAL PHILOSPHERS – CHOSE PHILOSOPHY AS A PROFESSION

THERE ARE THERE FOUR (4) BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY

1.) EPISTIMOLOGY - the theory of knowledge

2.) METAPHYSICS – STUDIES the fundamental nature of reality, the
first principles of being, identity and change, space and
time, causality, necessity, and possibility.
A. ONTOLOGY is a branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of
being.
3.) LOGIC - studies the scope and nature of logic.
A. REASON
4.) AXIOLOGY - the study of the nature of value and valuation, and of
the kinds of things that are valuable
A. ETHICS Is a moral principles that govern a person's behaviour or the
conducting of an activity.
B. AESTHETICS the philosophical study of art.

PHILOSOPHERS

THALES – HE STATES THAT ALL THINGS ARE WATER

EMPODECLES – BELIEVES THAT ALL THINGS ARE CREATED BY THE 4 ELEMENTS

SOCRATES

- INVENTED THE SOCRATIC METHOD

- PHAEDO ( ON THE SOUL )
- STATES THAT THE ONLY WISDOM IS BY KNOWING YOU KNOW NOTHING
PLATO

- THE REPUBLIC ( SOCRATIC DIALOUGE )

- IDEALISM is the theory that the substantive reality around us is only a
reflection of a higher truth.
- THE APOLOGY is the speech of legal self defence
- CONCEPT OF SOUL he believed that the soul is IMMORTAL
- OPINION IS THE MEDIUM BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND OPINION

ARISTOTLE

- FIRST GENIUS SCIENTIST

- REALISM ( WHATEVER SENSES DO PERCEIVE IS THE TRUE AND IDEAS ARE NOT )
- EDUCATING THE MIND WITHOUT EDICATING THE HEART IS NO EDUCATION AT ALL

PYTHAGORAS

- PYTHAGORIAN THEORY
- AKK THINGS ARE MEASURED BY MATH

DEMOCRITUS

- CONCEPTUALIZE THE SMALLEST PART OF A MATTER ( ATOM )

- A MATHEMATICIAN AND A SCIENTIST

DOING PHILOSOPHY

A. QUESTION OF REALITY
B. QUESTION OF ETHICS
C. QUESTION OF UNCERTAINTY