Do you agree or disagree

with the following

statements?
 “
Philosophy is all about
reasoning
 “
Philosophy deals with
questions that cannot be
answered.
 “
What is not scientific is
not worth studying.
 “
A wise person is one
who knows everything.
Introduction to Philosophy of Human Person

Week 1
Nature and Function of
Philosophy
 WHAT
PHILOSOPH
Y
MEAN?
 DEFINITION OF
PHILOSOPHY

⊡ Philosophy are ideas, views, principles,

perspectives or beliefs
⊡ Activity of reasoning
⊡ An academic course or degree.
⊡ Love of wisdom
 Origin of Philosophy

⊡ Greece - birthplace of Philosophy

⊡ Thales of Miletus
 Father of Philosophy
 624 and 546 BCE
 “His desire to know the ultimate stuff that makes
up the different things we perceived.”
 A Wise Person

⊡ First, a wise person is someone who is

aware of what he/she/they knows and
what he/she/they does not know.
⊡ Second, a wise person holds the
beliefs that are not only true but w/c
he/she/they can also justify.
⊡ Third, a wise person knows a lot
about things that are valuable in life.
 A Wise Person

⊡ Fourth, a wise person can put

his/her/their knowledge to
practical use.
⊡ Fifth, a wise person does not
only know what is true, but also
knows what is good or what
ought to be done in a given
situation and he/she/they acts
accordingly.
 Origin of Philosophy

Wisdom consists of:

 a. knowing what one knows and what one does not
know
 b. having justified true beliefs
 c. knowing things that are valuable in life
 d. having the ability to put knowledge into practice
 e. knowing what should be done and acting
accordingly.
3 Central Philosophical Questions

Where
Am I?

What
How do I
should I
know it?
do?
 Philosophical Activity

3 Characterized Philosophical Activities:

 First in terms of scope, philosophy involves the
widest generalizations.
 Second, philosophy is all about fundamentals.
 Third, philosophy is driven by the desire to
integrate things in to a one coherent whole.
 Branches of Philosophy

Cognitive Normative
Branches Branches

Metaphysics Ethics

Epistemology Politics

Aesthetics
 Branches of Philosophy

Do God really exist?

⊡ Metaphysics (from the Greek meta meaning

after/beyond, and physics meaning nature) - deals with
questions regarding reality and existence.
 Branches of Philosophy

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⊡ Epistemology (from the Greek episteme meaning

knowledge) – branch of Philosophy that studies nature
and means of human knowledge .
 Branches of Philosophy

⊡ Aesthetics – studies the nature of art. It is concerned

with the nature and the objective judgement of beauty.
 Branches of Philosophy

Dyre loves playing Mobile Legend and he is very good at it. One day, he
was asked by his frind to be his teammate in the said competition because
he badly needs some money for their allowance since his parents have no
work as of the moment. Dyre asked his parents consent but he was not
allowed to join because of risk. Much of his willingness to help his friend, he
secretly agreed and joined the tournament and his excuse was he had to
finish some projects that day in his classmate’s house. Fortunately, they
won and the parents had no idea of what he did.

Ethics – a branch of philosophy that provides a human

being with a “code of values to guide man’s choices and
actions.”
⊡ Politics – branch of philosophy which defines the
principles of a proper social system.