PHI L OS O P H Y

WEEK 1
QUARTER 1
• WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY
• PHILOSOPHIZING
• EMBODIED SPIRIT
• HUMAN PERSON AND ENVIRONMENT
DECISION MAKING
PRUDENCE :
• PREEMINENT VIRTUE
• WITHOUT IT ETHICAL PURSUITS WILL FALL.
• IT IS THE MEASURE OF JUSTICE, OF FORTITUDE, OF TEMPERANCE
• PRUDENT PERSON WILL HUMBLY OPENS HIS/HER MIND TO THE TRUTH OF
GOD DISCLOSED IN ALL THAT IS REAL.
PRUDENTIA?
• PRUDENCE ACCORDING TO ARISTOTLE IS PRACTICAL WISDOM, THE KNOWLEDGE ON HOW WE
SHOULD ACT IN ACCORD WITH OUR TRUE NATURE.

• ELEMENTS OF PRUDENCE:
• 1. MEMORIA – THE ACCURATE REMEMBERING OF WHAT’S ESSENTIAL IN ETHICAL ACTIONS.
• 2.DOCILITAS – PRUDENT PERSONS ARE OPEN MINDED , ANXIOUS TO UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH.
THEY WANT TO DISCOVER TRUTH RATHER THAN CONSTRUCT THEORIES.

• 3. SOLERTIA- A CLEAR –SIGHTED “PERFECT ABILITY” TO DISCERN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN

RIGHT AND WRONG.
DECISION MAKING APPROACHES:
1. CONVENTIONAL DECISION-MAKING APPROACH: PROS AND CONS
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INVENTS THE FAMOUS METHOD FOR MAKING
DECISION.SIMPLY LIST ALL THE POSITIVE (PRO) AND NEGATIVE (CON)
2. CRITICAL DECISION MAKING APPROACH : THE CARVER MATRIX :
ORIGINALLY DESIGNED AND USED TO HELP A MILITARY FORCE WHICH OF A
RANGE OF MILITARY TARGET BEST TO AIM FOR.
CARVER METHOD
how vital the goal?
C –riticality
how easy to reach goal?
A – ccessibility
how easy to obtain information?
R – ecognizability
is your target easy to hit?
V - ulnerability
how much affect on life?
E – ffect
how much of a setback would the lost time and
R - ecuperability energy represent?
 DECISION MAKING FALLACIES

Decision making fallacies example Escape route

Denial or avoidance Sinking into a debt ,yet you Deal with the truth
Refusing to deal with deny there’s any problem
unpleasant facts

Yes .. But… Friends invite you on a holiday , you Use pin , list positive about the
cOming up with variety of reasons know you’d enjoy yet your mind idea and consider any negative
brings objection aspects or consequenses
POSITIVE-INTERESTING-NEGATIVE
Decision making fallacies example Escape route

Group think Statement beginning with Assume nothing, question

Automatically accepting the “everyone knows that,,” its everything.
opinions of others common knowledge that..

Selective vision See someone you love or admire Bring some objectivity to your
Trying to make the facts of a through rose tinted spectacles , judgement
situation conform to your everything they do is right
previously reached conclusions
Decision making fallacies example Escape route

Denial by U.s. motor that Reappraise all key assumptions.

One track mind americans ever willing to buy Never take anything for granted
Refusal to recognize any need for compact cars
new thinking

Overcomplicating matters You cant find an item in your house Employ principle of occam’s razor
Ignoring the simplest explanation and you assume that a neighbor ‘all things being equal, the
or solution in favor of an overly stole it. simplest solution is the best one.’
complex
 Escape route
Decision making fallacies example

Not my idea ! Dismissing an idea Your children refuse to do Try adapting the idea by adding
just because someone thought of something they usually wouldn’t your own twist to it, so that it feels
it. mind doing, simply because you more like your own.
suggested it.
MOVIE ABOUT DECISION MAKING