Philosophy of Man: Notes Historical Background I. Pre-Socratic Period - also known as the Cosmological Period (cosmos meaning universe) *questions about human existence and subsistence (basic needs) Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers: - Anaxagoras - Thales (he held that water is the fundamental stuff of all things‚ saying “All is water”) - Anaximander - Xenophanes - Heraclitus - Anaximenes Empiricism – a theory which states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience
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Mathematical ideas are innate and self-evident‚ which produce their own axioms‚ whereas metaphysics is a method of analysis and it has to find its own axioms. The Axiom of equality is never in conflict with whatever the senses reveal to us. Hence‚ mathematical truth have nothing to do with the senses. However‚ metaphysical axioms are always in
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347 B.C.E. He’s famously known for being Socrates’ student and the teacher of Aristotle. He has many writings that explored justice‚ beauty‚ and equality as well as containing discussions in aesthetics‚ political philosophy‚ theology‚ cosmology‚ epistemology‚ and the philosophy of language. His writings were highly influenced by Socrates as he would convey and expand on the ideas and techniques of his teacher. Plato founded the Academy which was the first institution of higher learning in the Western
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the Bible and "the Bible is the word of God" is an example of the fallacy of: | Argumentum ad hominem | X | Begging the question | | Straw man | | Appeal to emotion | 6. The pre-Socratics were primarily interested in the study of Epistemology. | True | X | False | 7. A proposition whose truth does not depend on sensory experience is known as a(n) ___________ principle. | a posteriori | | ad hominem | | reduction ad absurdum | X | a priori | 8. The philosopher
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Postgraduate Research Methodology for HRM A - 7BSP1034 Research Proposal Front Sheet *My Family Name: Sarna *My Given Name: Sharmin Gias *My Student Number: 09242177 *Supervisors Name: Natalia Rocha-Lawton *Second Markers Name: Sue Anderson Word Counts: 2750 Submission Date: 7th January 2013 . . For school
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Immanuel Kant is recognized as the greatest philosopher since Plato and Aristotle (Wolff). He is most widely known for his work in the fields of metaphysics and epistemology (McCormick). Kant published many works regarding his epistemological views‚ but his most famous work is The Critique of Pure Reason (McCormick). He noted that Descartes had “simply accepted consciousness as an…inexplicable fact” (Wolff). Kant utilized this observation to refute Descartes’ famous quote‚ “I think‚ therefore
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Political Philosophy 7/8/2013 What is Philosophy? The Central Questions of Philosophy – Political Philosophy • Value – Ethics (Good‚ Evil‚ Right‚ Wrong‚ Justice) • Political Philosophy – Aesthetics (Beauty) • Reality – Metaphysics (Cosmology‚ Ontology) • Knowledge – Epistemology (Theory of Knowledge) PHI 7100 History of Philosophy: The Classical Philosophers ©2013 Richard Legum – all rights reserved 1 What is Philosophy? Political Philosophy Some central questions of Political Philosophy:
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Through out the life and times of Thomas Nagel‚ has contributed to a wide spectrum of philosophical topics in ethical theory‚ moral psychology‚ applied ethics‚ and political theory‚ as well as to metaphysics and epistemology. According to the Platonic Myth‚ Nagel States “The thing we can do which comes closest to getting outside of ourselves is to form a detached idea of the world that includes us‚ and includes our possession of that conception as part of what it enables us to understand about
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backed up by reasoning. Webster’s Dictionary explains philosophy as “the study of ideas about knowledge‚ truth‚ the nature and meaning of life‚ etc.” The different branches are Metaphysics‚ which deal with questions like‚ what is being? What are its fundamental features and properties is there a god? Another branch is Epistemology which is the theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy concerned with these questions: what is the nature of knowledge‚ and what are its criteria‚ sources and limits.
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knowledge/wisdom. Therefore philosophy means love of knowledge/wisdom. Philosophy is just like a tree because it has different branches. For instance main areas of the study in philosophy include metaphysics it is the study of general features reality such as existence‚ time and relationship between mind and body‚ EPISTEMOLOGY concerned with the nature and extent of knowledge‚ LOGIC is the study of principles of correct reasoning‚ ETHICS is dealing with moral conduct‚ and AETHETICS dealing with beauty. There
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