ETHICS

INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
LECTURE
MR. WENDELL BURGOS

OUTLINE
I. What is Philosophy II. DEFINITION
A. As a Philosophy of Life ● Latin: De - Fenire
B. As a Love of Wisdom ● “LIMIT”
C. As a Discipline of Questioning ● Definition - is putting a word into a scope or
II. Definition putting it at its limitation
III. The Etymological Definitions of Philosophy
A. Greek TWO TYPES OF DEFINITION:
B. Chinese 1. Etymological Definition
C. Hindi ● Define as a term based on its origin
IV. The Essential Definition of Philosophy 2. Essential Definition
V. Other Branches of Philosophy ● Defines a term according to its genus or
specific difference (species)
○ Genus - attribute of the whole
I. WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? class marked by common
characteristics
● PHILOSOPHY:
○ Specific difference - an attribute
○ Undefinability
that distinguishes a thing or a
○ Definition
term from the rest of the
members of the class.
A. AS A PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
● PHILOSOPHY IS INDEFINABLE
III. THE ETYMOLOGICAL DEFINITIONS OF
○ A process of personal reflection of the
PHILOSOPHY
meaning of human life/existence
○ A quest for a personal outlook or
personal lifestyle concerning the A. GREEK
wholeness of reality ● Philosophy as a LOVE of WISDOM,
○ An endless process. It has begun but ○ PHILO = LOVE
will undoubtedly have no end. ○ SOPHIA = WISDOM
● To Philosophize is to be in a quest or to have a
B. AS A LOVE OF WISDOM desire towards living the truth.
● PHILOSOPHY IS INDEFINABLE
○ A discipline not to be defined but to be B. CHINESE
inquired into. ● Philosophy is STUDY of WISDOM
○ A discipline not to be defined but to be ○ ZHE = Wisdom
lived in. ○ XUE = Study
○ It knows no limits just as the human
mind knows no boundaries in its search
for the rational explanation of reality and
of man himself.

C. AS A DISCIPLINE OF QUESTIONING
CHE = Wisdom
● PHILOSOPHY IS INDEFINABLE
SHUEH = Study
○ DYNAMIC:
● Inseparability Between words and actions
■ Unending series of questions
● Application of theory into praxis
and answers
● Challenge to live on what he says
○ PERSONAL
■ Philosophical concepts are not
C. HINDI
immutable doctrines
● Philosophy as “SEEING”
● Darsana
“The kind of question that the person raises reveals the
kind of mind that the person has.”

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 ○ Seeing not only through the eyes but
through the whole being of the one that
sees
○ Seeing the whole reality through a total
advertence and involvement of the
looker

IV. THE ESSENTIAL DEFINITION OF PHILOSOPHY

● PHILOSOPHY is…
○ A science that investigates all things in
their ultimate causes, reasons, and
principles through the use of human
reason.

V. OTHER BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY

● Logic
○ the science and art of correct thinking.
● Theodicy
○ the philosophical study of God
● Cosmology
○ the philosophical treatise of the
physical universe in its final analysis
● Ethics
○ The critical, reflective and systematic
analysis of the morality of human
conduct

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