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Focuses more on “HOW” and “WHY” and not on “WHAT”

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Philosophy

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Questions existing knowledge in order to get closer to the truth

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Philosophy

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Involves the topic of the nature of the self

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Philosophy

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Finds answers to serious questions about ourselves and the world we live in

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Philosophy

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Philosophy allows you to?

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Think

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A systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Philosophy

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It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions

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Philosophy

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Greek word “philo” means?

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Love

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Greek word “Sophia” means?

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Wisdom

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Philo + Sophia = ?

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‘Love of wisdom’

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4 branches of philosophy

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Epistemology
Ethics
Metaphysics
Aesthetics

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Branch of philosophy focused on the nature, origin, and scope of human KNOWLEDGE

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Epistemology

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The systematic branch of philosophy that study what is morally right and wrong, good and bad, and how humans ought to live and act.

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Ethics

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Branch of philosophy that studies the ultimate nature of reality, existence, and being.

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Metaphysics

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Branch of philosophy dedicated to the study of beauty, art, and taste, along with the creation and appreciation of sensory experiences.

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Aesthetics

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Uses artificial languages with a precise symbolic representation to investigate arguments

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Formal Logic

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Uses non-formal criteria and standards to assess the correctness of arguments. It relies on additional factors such as content and context.

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Informal Logic

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First used the term philosophy

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Pythagoras

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Who said the phrase ‘love of wisdom’?

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Pythagoras

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Who said the famous line “know yourself”

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Socrates

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Who considers man from the point of view of his inner life

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Socrates

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Who said “A bad man is not virtuous through ignorance; the man who does not follow the good fails to do so because he does not recognize it.”

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Socrates

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The core of Socratic ethics is the concept of?

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Virtue and knowledge

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____ is the deepest and most basic propensity of man.

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Virtue

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Who said "every man is DUALISTIC"
Socrates
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Based on Socrates, what is the 2 important aspects of personhood?
Body - imperfect & impermanent Soul - perfect & permanent
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What is Socrates' 2 dichotomous realms?
Physical Realms Spiritual Realm
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What realm is changeable, transient, and imperfect?
Physical Realm
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What realm is unchanging, eternal, and immortal
Spiritual Realm
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Who said "Good life is attained through acquisition of knowledge, wisdom, and virtue"
Socrates
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Who said "We need to take care of our souls to attain the good life"
Socrates
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Who said "Knowing what is right, is doing what is right"
Socrates
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Who said "An unexamined life is not worth living"
Socrates
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Who said "To know is to know oneself"
Socrates
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'The ideal self, the perfect self'
Plato
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Who said "man is omniscient or all-knowing before he came to be born into this world"
Plato
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___ which is the fruit of virtue, is attained by the constant imitation of the divine exemplar of virtue, embodied in man's former perfect self.
Happiness
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Who said "man in this life should imitate his former self"
Plato
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Who said "The soul is immortal"
Plato
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__ is a student of Socrates
Plato
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Who believed in the existence of mind and soul?
Plato
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Who said "Philosophy of the self can be explained as a process of self-knowledge and purification of the soul?"
Plato
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Who said "Mind and soul are given in perfection with God"?
Plato
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3 parts of the soul according to Plato
Rational Soul Spirited Soul Appetitive Soul
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Which soul relies on Reason and intellect?
Rational Soul
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Which soul relies on Emotion and passion?
Spirited Soul
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Which soul relies on basic needs?
Appetitive Soul
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When conflict occurs, Plato believes that it is the responsibility of our ___ to sort things out and exert control, restoring a harmonious relationship among the three elements.
Rational Soul
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Whose idea is the 'Respect for self'
Immanuel Kant
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____ defined the self as an organizing principle that synthesizes experiences
Immanuel Kant
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Whose idea is the 'Apparatuses of the mind'
Immanuel Kant
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Born March 31, 1596 Died Feb. 11, 1650 French Mathematician, scientist, and philosopher FATHER OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY
René Descartes
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Who said "I think, therefore I am"
René Descartes
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Who said "The act of thinking about the self- of being self-conscious - is in itself the proof that there is a self"
René Descartes
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For ___, the essence of the self- a thinking entity that doubts, understands, analyzes, questions, and reasons.
Descartes
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Who said "the self as a thinking entity is distinct from the self as a physical body"
René Descartes
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René Descartes 2 Distinct Entities
Cognito - the thing that thinks the mind Extenza - the extension - the body
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What is the meaning of "Cogito, ergo sum"
"I think, therefore I am"
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Whose idea is the 'Personal Identity'
John Locke
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Personal identity (the self) is a matter of ___ continuity.
Psychological
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Personal identity is founded on ___, and not on the substance of either the soul or the body.
Consciousness (memory)
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______ is the concept about oneself that evolves over the course of an individual's life.
Personal identity
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Who said "The body is our general medium for having a world"
Maurice Jean Jacques Merleau-Ponty
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A French phenomenologist and existentialist philosopher that made significant contributions to the understanding of the SELF and HUMAN PERCEPTION.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Who challenged "Cartesian dualism"
Maurice Merleau-Ponty & Gilbert Ryle
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Who believed the physical body to be an important part of what makes up the subjective self
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Whose idea is the 'Self & Behavior'
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Who said "Physical body is part of self"
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Who stated that "the perceptions of the mind and actions of the body are interconnected"
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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Who stated "All knowledge is derived from human senses"
David Hume
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____ is the collection of impression
Bundle Theory - David Hume
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____ vivid; product of direct experience
Impressions - David Hume
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____ copies of impressions; imagination
Ideas
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Who said "Life is never ending production of experiences. The self is a bundle of these experiences."
David Hume
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Who said "Everything is passing and who we are is impossible to define"
David Hume
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Who said "Man has no "clear and intelligible" idea of the self"
David Hume
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Who said " A person can never observe oneself without some other perceptions"
David Hume
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Who said " A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts"
Gilbert Ryle
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Ground breaking work "The Concept of Mind" and developed the notion of "category mistake"
Gilbert Ryle
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Who said "I act therefore I am"
Gilbert Ryle
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Who is this philosopher? - Arguing that the mind does not exist and therefore can't be the seat if self - believed that self comes from behavior - we are all just bundle of behaviors
Gilbert Ryle
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Who proposed the idea that "the self has an immortal soul"
St. Augustine
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Who said "I am doubting therefore I am"
St. Augustine
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Who is this Philosopher? -Integrated the ideas of Plato and Christianity -believed humankind is created in the image and likeness of God -the self is known only through knowing God
St. Augustine
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Who said "knowledge can only come by seeing the truth that dwells within us"
St Augustine
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-One of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Catholic religion -The most eminent 13th century scholar and stalwart of the medieval philosophy
St. Thomas Aquinas
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According to St. Thomas Aquinas, man is composed of 2 parts:
Matter (hyle) - common stuff that makes up everything Form (morpe) - essence of the living
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Know thy self (dualistic - body and soul)
Socrates
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Ideal self and perfect self ( rational, spirited, appetitive souls)
Plato
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"I think therefore I am"
Descartes
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Bundle Theory of the mind (collection of experiences)
Hume
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Clean slate (tabularaza)
Locke
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Respect of self and principles of experiences
Kant
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" I act, therefore, I am" (pattern of behavior
Ryle
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The self is subjective (mind and soul as one)
Ponty
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The self leaves an immortal soul
St. Augustine
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Matter and form
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Who said "the soul is immortal"
Plato
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Who's idea is CONSCIOUSNESS
John Locke
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Organizing principle
Immanuel Kant
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Bundle of impressions
David Hume
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Multi Layered self
Sigmund Freud
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3 levels of consciousness according to Freud
Conscious Preconscious Unconscious
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3 levels of awareness by Sigmund Freud
ID = unconscious Ego = conscious Superego = preconscious
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Who denied concept of duality
Gilbert Ryle
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Who said " the self is the way people behave"
Gilbert Ryle
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Who said "duality self is an invalid problem"
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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