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Philosophy
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 2
09/27/2011

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Philosophy” is a combination of two ancient Greek words, “Philein” and “Sophia”, which mean
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love and wisdom
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Believing that “the unexamined life is not worth living
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Socrates
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Why Study Philosophy?
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• Critical thinking skills, writing skills and speaking skills
• Liberation from prejudice and provincialism.
• Expansion of one’s horizon
• Understanding Society
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The goal of philosophy
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Autonomy
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Epistemology
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origin or human knowledge
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Metaphysics
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a division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being
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Presocratic Philosophers
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The origins of western philosophy
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Cosmology
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explaining the material world
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Thales
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Water
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Pythagoras
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Pythagorean theorem
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Pythagoras Asks
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Does the World Have a Mathematical Blueprint?
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Anaximenes
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Air
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Parmenides
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unchange
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Heraclitus
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change
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According the the Sophists
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Truth is relative
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Plato
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founded the Academy
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believed that our soul’s were eternal
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Plato
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We gain our knowledge through
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recollection
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Form
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According to Plato’s metaphysical theory, there is an aspect of reality beyond the one which we can see, an aspect of reality even more real than the one we see
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not pre-socratics
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Plato
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apology in greek
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defense
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father of western philosophy
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socrates
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Aesthetics
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beauty
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ethics
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study for morality, code or set of principles
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logos
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logical explaination
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Democritus
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invisible matters called atoms
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"you cannot step twice into the same river"
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heraclitus
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"man is the measure of all things"
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sophists, protagoras
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man shackle in a cave
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us
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metaphysical
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anything beyond physical world
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who said socrates was wisest of all men?
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oracle of delphi
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sophist thought
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truth, morality and ethic was man made
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