Grade 12 Philosophy reviewer Cheat Sheet

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Philosophy Need for philos​oph​izing

-philo​s(love) Aristotle All men desire to know

-Sophi​a(w​isdom) Plato to quench his sense of wonder
-Love of wisdom
Rene Descartes to doubt

Socrates the start of wisdom is docta ignorantia

Nature of Philosophy
Karl Jaspers because of experience
Always in the quest for an explan​ation
docta ignorantia
Key Interr​ogative words
-limit​ation of human knowledge
-What
-Why
Types of Thinking
-How
Holistic conclu​sions are made without looking at all sides
Types of Search Perspe​ctive of the problem

merely asking Partial Point of looking at all aspects of the situation and then
View making a conclusion
intense search for deeper meaning

Reflection
Origin of Philosophy
requires a person to be willing to examine one's thoughts,
Miletus, Greece the birthplace of philosophy in the west
feelings, and actions and to learn more about one's life
Thales of Miletus first philos​opher in the west
experi​ences
Thales asked "What is the ultimate stuff of the univer​se"
Answer he found: Water Philos​ophical Reflection

- When a person conducts in a philos​ophical reflec​tion, he is able to

Philos​ophical activity
judge whether his actions or decisions are reasonable or
widest genera​liz​‐ Philos​ophers talk about the truth, the good, not by thinking of deeper questions and reflecting on the situation.
ations the just, the beautiful, and the existence of
practi​cally all things Steps in Philos​ophical Reflection
fundam​entals knowledge wont make sense without philos​‐ Learning from past mistakes and not repeaating them
ophical ideas like consci​ousness and
Evaluating the best options from the options
existence
Have a holistic point of view before making conclusion
desire to integrate find the One in the many
things into one
Theories of Truth
coherent whole
Corres​pon​‐ concepts are true when they correspond to the
dence Theory reality of the world.
Branches of Philosophy
of Truth
Metaph​ysics about human reality like the origin and existence
Coherence ideas are inter-​related system
Episte​‐ nature of the human knowledege and how to obtain
Theory of Truth
mology it
Pragmatic A pragmatist can consider something to be true
Ethics moral questions and dillemas
Theory of Truth without needing to confirm that it is univer​sally
Aesthetics establish the criteria of beauty true.
Logic deals with correct reasoning

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 Grade 12 Philosophy reviewer Cheat Sheet
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Tips in Evaluating Opinions Concepts in Method of Philos​oph​izing

Source knowing the origin of the inform​ation Facts something that can be verified as true
Reliab​ility reputation and credib​ility of the person Opinion subjective
Purpose reason for the opinion Beliefs statements with conviction that are not easily
Assumption once accepts as fuct but no effort to prove it explained by facts
Explan​‐ statements that assume the claim to be true and
Methods of Philos​oph​izing ation provide reasons

Methodic any claim that can be doubted is not believable Conclusion judgement based on facts
Doubt Fallacies arguments based on faulty reasoning
Socratic teache​r-s​tudent, one ask question, one answers Arguments provides reasons to convince reader or listener for a
Method claim to be true
Dialectic exchange of logical arguments Bias disapr​opo​rti​onate weight in favor or against something.
Scientific gaining conclusion from scientific experi​ments, Can be both positive and negative.
methods etc
Historical based on trying to understand past human affairs

Fallacies

Ad hominem attacking the person not the argument

Ad baculum appeal by force
Ad miseri​cordiam appeal by using pity and emotion
Ad populum bandwagon, acceptable because many are
accepting it
Ad Antiqu​itatem acceptable because it has been true for a long
time
Petitio Principii begging the question
Fallacy of combining words instead of taking them
Compos​ition seperately
Fallacy of assuming that if its true for the whole is also true
division for each parts
Ad verecu​ndiam appeal by shame
Dicto Simpli​citer argument based on unqual​ified genera​liz​ation

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