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Philosophical

Methods
Table of Contents
01 Journey to Truth
Who were the seekers of truth?

02 Truth Seeking Methods


How did they seek truth?

03 Schools of Thought
How much progress was made?

04 Existential Phenomenology
Can we practice the journey to truth?
Opinion is not
Knowledge
OPINION

(1) A belief based on experience and on


certain facts but not amounting to sure
knowledge.

(2) A judgement about a person or thing.


Doxa & Episteme
Something that appears to be true is
not automatically true.

Opinion (Gr. Doxa) is differentiated


from Knowledge (Gr. Episteme)
“Cogito, ergo, sum”

- Rene Descartes, considered to be


the “ Father of Modern Philosophy ”

Modern Legacy
The Contemporary
Deconstruction and the Problem of
Social Strata in Philosophy
Methods of Truth Seeking

Correspondence Phenomenology
Theory Linguistics & Existentialism
Truth Words and the Consciousness is
corresponds to context principle consciousness of
reality something
Philosophical
Analysis
The use of language to criticize and improve
opinions. The first known process was attributed to
Socrates as he invented the “Socratic Method”
An Image Is Worth a
Thousand Words

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