It is a statement can be proven to be true.

They are expressions of

knowledge.

FACT
It is an expressions of beliefs and statements colored with your biases,
preferences and justifications.

OPINION
It is a way for humans to reflect on and understand the world around
them.

PHILOSOPHIZING
There are 50 states in the United States.

FACT
The third president of the United States was Thomas Jefferson.

FACT
King John of England signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

FACT
The internet is being used by teenagers to waste their
time in social media.

OPINION
I prefer using Facebook to Twitter because Twitter has
limited characters per caption.

OPINION
The legal age for drinking should be lowered to 16.

OPINION
Existentialism– it is a philosophy that
emphasizes the importance of free individual
choice, regardless of the power of other people to
influence and coerce our desires, beliefs, and
decisions. It is the view that humans define their
own meaning in life, and try to make rational
decisions despite existing in an irrational
universe. It focuses on the question of human
existence, and the feeling that there is no
purpose or explanation at the core of existence.
An example of existentialism would be when a
person makes a decision about their life, follows
through or does not follow through on that
decision and begins to create their essence. The
idea of existentialism is a person will create their
essence over their lifetime and will be finished or
fully formed. In existentialism, the existence
comes first and the essence comes second.
Analytic Tradition– this philosophy was founded by Gottlob Frege in the late 19th century. It
is said that the Philosophy should apply logical techniques to attain conceptual clarity.
Analytic Philosophy is also called linguistic philosophy, a related set of approaches to
philosophical problems. This philosophy means the using common experience and ordinary
language to analyze concepts and language in philosophy. Example of analytic philosophy is
The Star Trek’s Mr. Spock. Gene Roddenberry, the creator of the original show was famous for
his intense interest in philosophy and religion and he was probably aware of the
developments in analytic philosophy during the 1960’s when Star Treck was first made. Many
of Spock’s attribute his precise speech, suspicion of emotion and incredible clarity of thought
mimic the ideals of analytic philosophy.
Logic-it is a truth which is based on reasoning and critical thinking. It is the analysis and
construction of arguments and serve as the path to freedom from half truths and deception.
Logic is also one of the major branches of Philosophy which increases one’s ability to reason
correctly and distinguish irrational reasoning. There are rules in logic that can give a person
some techniques to create sound arguments and avoid fallacious reasoning. Logic has two
types of reasoning: the inductive and deductive. Inductive reasoning is in particular premises
converted into general premises. Through inductive and deductive reasoning it can provide
the rules on how people ought to think logically.
Processing questions:

1.What are the methods of philosophizing?

2.What is the difference between phenomenology and
existentialism?
3.What is the difference between existentialism and
post modernism?
Direction: Identify the statement. Write P if the statement is Phenomenology
and E if the statement is Existentialism.

P 1. Phenomenology was founded by Edmund Husserl who worked

copiously to establish it as a rigorous science.
P 2. Study of Phenomeno that arise from the experience of being in
the world.
3. The notion is that human exist first and then each individuals
E spends a lifetime changing their essence nature.
P 4. Truth is based on a person's consciousness.
E 5. It emphasizes the importance of free individual choice,
regardless of the power of other people to influence and
coerce our desires, beliefs, and decisions
HOMEWORK
A.ANSWER THE FF:
1.What is the difference between opinion and fact?
2.How to verify which is opinion and fact?
3.Why there is a need to philosophize?
4.What is philosophizing?
5.What is phenomenology?
6.What is existentialism?
7.What is postmodernism?
8.What is analytic tradition?
9.What make the logic and critical thinking a tools for reasoning?

REFERENCE: INTRO TO PHILOSOPHY pp. 17-21

GROUP ACTIVITY

GROUP 1 MUSICAL INCLINED (Methods of

Philosophizing/Phenomenology: Consciousness)

GROUP 2 BROADCASTING Existentialism: on Freedom)

GROUP 3 ARTISTIC IN NATURE (Postmodernism: On Cultures)

GROUP 4 COMPUTER LITERATE (Analytic Tradition/ Logic &

Critical thinking: Tools in Reasoning )