9:40 PM -First assignment distributed (P.E.T.) Personal Essay Topic – Ethical issue that you find interesting and will want to use/refer to throughout the rest of the course. What is ethics? -Philosophy à 1. Epistemology – what do we know‚ and how do we know it? 2. Metaphysics – The nature of reality. What exists‚ why? And what is it like? 3. Ethics – How should we live our lives? What is “right”? What is “wrong”? Why do we need to study ethics? Helps you psychologize towards people Helps
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branches of philosophy Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge or wisdom generally topic specific. Philosophers aim to answer three main questions which have become the three primary branches of technology. Metaphysics seeks to answer questions relating to being or existence. Epistemology seeks to answer questions relating to knowledge (criteria‚ sources‚ limits‚ ect.). The third branch of philosophy seeks to answer questions relating to values and has four sub groups: 1. Moral philosophy (moral
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Descartes and Plato Explain both of descartes Arguments for the existence of God Descartes proof of God’s existence comes from his third meditation and is based on three ideas. He argues that innate idea exists within us‚ the fictitious or invented ideas are a result of our own imagination and adventitious ideas result from our experiences in the world. Descartes said‚ the idea of God is innate and cannot be invented. Descartes presents some arguments that lead to his conclusion. The first
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Philosophy Class Session 2 08/29/11 Chapter 1 and We Think Catholic Prof article page 1-39 page 7 Quotes “The beginning of wisdom is to desire it” ~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol “He who knows he is a fool is not a great fool” ~ Confucius Wisdom vs Knowledge‚ the smartest guy in the room might not be the wisest‚ but the wisest man is often just ordinary in everything else. Compare? Wisdom to knowledge as a librarian is to a library. I. Pursuit of Wisdom A. “Get in the game” - more
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Philosophical thinker‚ Plato‚ believed in human nature and that one had to be able to understand human nature in order to live life to the best of one’s ability. Plato believed in metaphysics- principles that are real- and epistemology- the study of theories of knowledge that justify beliefs from opinions. Furthermore‚ Plato believed in using literary devices to explain his views‚ which lead to one of his most famous thoughts‚ the allegory of the cave- in which Plato tells Socrates’s story of prisoners
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TERM PAPER ON “THE BASIC CHARACTERISTICS OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY” SUBMITTED TO: MANZOOR ELAHEE PROFESSOR DEPT. OF PHILOSOPHY JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED BY: TASHBIA AFRIN CHOWDHURY ID: 2010020200046 BATCH: 15‚ SECTION: B DEPT. OF ENGLISH SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY DATE OF SUBMISSION: 04-05-2013 To most of us living in India‚ China is some sort of an enigma. On one hand we are told that India exported its culture and philosophy
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writings cover many subjects‚ including physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚ politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology. Together with Plato and Socrates (Plato’s teacher)‚ Aristotle is one of the most important founding figures in Western philosophy. Aristotle’s writings were the first to create a comprehensive system of Western philosophy‚ encompassing morality‚ aesthetics‚ logic‚ science‚ politics‚ and metaphysics. Aristotle’s views on the physical sciences profoundly
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empiricists attack the rationalists’ accounts of how reason is a source of concepts or knowledge. 1. Introduction The dispute between rationalism and empiricism takes place within epistemology‚ the branch of philosophy devoted to studying the nature‚ sources and limits of knowledge. The defining questions of epistemology include the following. 1. What is the nature of propositional knowledge‚ knowledge that a particular proposition about the world is true? To know a proposition‚ we must believe
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Web. 12 Nov. 2011. <http://highered.mcgraw-……hill.com/sites/076742011x/student_view0/chapter6/glossary.html>.>…………. Newman‚ L. Descartes ’ epistemology. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Metaphysics ……Research Lab‚ CSLI‚ Stanford University‚ 20 July 2010. Web. 12 Nov. 2011. ……<http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/>. Paquette‚ Paul G. Philosophy: questions & theories. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson‚ 2003. ……Print.
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factors. Thus‚ if we talk about philosophy‚ we talk about a school of thoughts. “philosophers” which makes a profession of studying things in their separation from human life and practice. The main branches of Philosophy are Logic‚ Epistemology‚ Metaphysics and Ethics. Western philosophy is referred to as the school of thought from Greek philosophy that influenced the greater part of Western civilization. * takes its roots from Rome and Christianity‚ specifically Judeo-Christianity
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