GROUP 1

1. INTRODUCTION: DOING
PHILOSOPHY
• DIVERSITY
• KURCINKA 2006
• THE ENHANCED BASIC
E D U C AT I O N A C T O F 2 0 1 3 o r
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10533 (signed
on May 15, 2013)
1.1 THE MEANING OF PHILOSOPHY
“PHILOSOPHY”
- comes from two Greek words
philo ‘to love’
sophia ‘wisdom’
- originally meant, “love of wisdom”
- defined as the science that by natural light of reason
studies the first causes or highest principles of all things.
 1.1 THE MEANING OF PHILOSOPHY
NATURAL STUDY OF FIRST CAUSE
SCIENCE LIGHT OF ALL OR HIGHEST
REASON PRINCIPLE
THINGS

-theology
-Systematic -the philosopher -sets the -proceeds in
uses his natural distinction any manner • PRINCIPLE OF
-an organized
capacity to think between whatsoever IDENTITY
body of
or simply, human philosophy from • PRINCIPLE OF NON-
knowledge reason alone or
other sciences CONTRADITION
the so-called • PRINCIPLE OF
unaided reason
EXLUDED MIDDLE
• PRINCIPLE OF
SUFFICIENT REASON
1.2 THE BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
METAPHYSICS Only an extension of a fundamental and necessary drive in
every human being to know what is real.

Explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human

ETHICS
actions.

EPISTEMOLOGY Deals with nature, sources, limitations, and validity of

knowledge.

LOGIC Comes from Greek word logike and was coined by Zeno, the
Stoic. It means a treatise on matters pertaining to the
human thought.
1.2 THE BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY
AESTHETICS Is the science of the beautiful in its various manifestations---
including the sublime, comic, tragic, pathetic, and ugly.

• It vitalizes our knowledge.

• It helps us to live more deeply and richly.
• It brings us in touch with our culture.
 REFLECTIONS, MEDITATIONS, AND
CONVERSATIONS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD:
BY WHAT VALUES SHALL I LIVE IN THE WORLD?
 REFLECTIONS, MEDITATIONS, AND
CONVERSATIONS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD:
WHAT CONSTITUTES A HUMAN PERSON?
 REFLECTIONS, MEDITATIONS, AND
CONVERSATIONS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD:
HOW MUCH FREEDOM SHOULD WE HAVE? WHO SHOULD DECIDE?

WILLIAM EDWARD BURGHARDT DU BOIS

(1868-1963)
 REFLECTIONS, MEDITATIONS, AND
CONVERSATIONS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD:
WOMEN’S EQUAL RIGHTS

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
 REFLECTIONS, MEDITATIONS, AND
CONVERSATIONS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

ALAN MATHISON TURING

THANK
YOU!