INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY TYPE OF PHILOSOPHERS

Alistair Sinclair
PHILOSOPHY – Philosopher
ORAL – not having formal training
Understand and can help us in attaining the good life

PHILO – LOVE STREET – half assessed, half baked – poorly though solution

SOPHIA – WISDOM (GREEK) AMATEUR – Socrates, consciously aware

- Feeling of WONDER
STUDENT – positive in attitude or mindset
GREAT PHILOSOPHERS – SOCRATES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE
ACADEMIC – degree level, utilize his philosophy to benefit others
RATIONALE – One that makes sense

RATIONALE ARGUMENT / RATIONALIST – person who bases his opinion on PROFESSIONAL – intellectual gifted
ideas, knowledge rather than emotions.
GREAT – almost of them are dead.
AREAS OF PHILOSOPHY

METAPHYSICS – META “after beyond” PHUSI “nature” TENDER VS TOUGH PHILOSOPHER

- Studies reality, seeking ultimate causes in absolute thing.
EPISTEMOLOGY – Theory of knowledge – Major/Minor
VALUE THEORY – something worth significant
ETHICS – applies to individual actions, decisions and relations
AESTHETICS – perceives things trough sensation, feelings and intuition.
Experience of beauty
LOGIC – standards of right thinking
PHILOSOPHER
TENDER – source of knowledge, underlying reality of things
TOUGH – uses 5 senses, devoid of any ultimate point
PLATO – “Mind over Matter” – Father of IDEALISM
IDEAS – are the only true reality. Ideas vs material world
AUTHENTIC – Knowledge, highly desirable, conscious reasoning must
purse truth, beauty and justice
IDEAS ARE SUPERIOR
CANNOT BE DOUBTED
SPIRIT AND MENTAL IDEALISM
- News the world real, eternal, permanent universal
- World of appearance

- Seeker of wisdom / ultimate truth

GEORGE BERKELEY –on idealist
Good and Bad Philosophers - Matter does not exist
- Artic Agent/proof
ARISTOTLE “All men by nature and desired to know”
- think critically about the greatest things IMMANUEL KANT
Our experience of things is about how they appear to us.
FRIEDRICH SHELLING – Spirit is the serve of reality ST.THOMAS AQUINAS

- Greatest theologian in the western religion

GEORGE HEGELS – absolute idealism - Matter did not co-exist with God

- Creation originates from God

REALISM: ARISTOTLE – FATHER OF REALISM

MODERN REALISM – ideas present in a universal way

-believe in the existence of objective reality, things as they are Does not exist outside the mind

- Ultimate reality, physical object exist independently mind

THESIS OF INDEPENDENCE – knowledge and value exist

Indepently in the human mind.

Objects in the universe exist.

ARISTOTLE

-key in understanding an object is to know its ultimate form

Particular object shares properties with the similar object

KNOWLEDGE is formed through contact with nature/environment