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    Introduction to the Philosophy of

    Human Person – reviewer


    What is Philosophy? And where it begins?

    What is Philosophy as a TERM/WORD?

    The term "philosophy" comes from the Greek language. It consists of two words:

    philos, (love, or philia )- friendship, affection

    sophos (learned scholar, sage, or

    sophia - wisdom, knowledge, talent)

    ■ "philo" - love

    ■ "sophia" - wisdom

    THUS:

    1. Philosophy is the love of wisdom

    2. Philosophy attempts to answer life's Big Questions

    3. Philosophy is about Questions

    4. Philosophers ask Questions about what people Believe

    5. Philosophy is about Examining Ourselves & Our Beliefs

    THERE ARE MANY QUESTIONS but there are SOME BIG QUESTION

    • What?

    • Why?

    ▪ HOW?
    What are the REASONS for a particular belief?

    Do you believe in GOD? WHY

    QUESTIONS OF BELIEF

    Do you believe that MURDER is WRONG? WHY?

    Do you believe that EUTHANASIA IS EVIL? WHY

    QUESTIONS OF VALUES?

    What are the strategies used in answering questions?

    1. Common sense

    - a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things that are shared by (common to) nearly all
    people without need for debate.

    2. Scientific

    - Based on or characterized by the methods and principles of science.

    3. Philosophical

    - relating or devoted to the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence

    WHAT MAKES PEOPLE?

    1.We don’t ask big questions

    What is the meaning of life? What should I do with my work? Were are we going as a society? What is
    love? Most of us have these questions in our minds at some point (often in the middle of the night), but
    we despair of trying to answer them. They have the status of jokes in most social circles: and we get shy
    of expressing them (except for brief moments in adolescence) for fear of being thought pretentious and
    of getting nowhere. But these questions matter deeply because only with sound answers to them can we
    direct our energies meaningfully

    2.We are vulnerable to errors of common sense

    Public opinion – or what gets called ‘common sense’ – is sensible and reasonable in countless areas. It’s
    what you hear about from friends and neighbors, the stuff that’s just assumed to be true, the stuff you
    take in without even thinking about it. The media pumps it out by the gallon every day. But in some
    cases, common sense is also full of daftness, error and the most lamentable prejudice. Philosophy gets
    us to submit all aspects of common sense to reason. It wants usto think for ourselves, to be more
    independent. Is it really true what people say about love, about money, about children, about travel,
    about work? Philosophers are interested in asking whether an idea is logical – rather than simply
    assuming it must be right because it is popular and long-established.

    3.We are mentally confused

    We’re not very good at knowing what goes on in our own minds. We know we really like a piece of
    music. But we struggle to say quite why. Or someone we meet is very annoying, but we can’t pin down
    what the issue is. Or we lose our temper, but can’t readily tell what we’re so cross about. We lack insight
    into our own satisfactions and dislikes. That’s why we need to examine our own minds. Philosophy is
    committed to self-knowledge – and its central precept – articulated by the earliest, greatest philosopher,
    Socrates – is just two words long: Know yourself.

    4. Our emotions can send us in dangerous directions

    We are inescapably emotional beings but regularly forget this uncomfortable fact. Occasionally certain
    emotions – certain kinds of anger, envy or resentment – lead us into serious trouble. Philosophers teach
    us to think about our emotions, rather than simply have them. By understanding and analyzing our
    feelings, we learn to see how emotions impact on our behavior in unexpected, counterintuitive and
    sometimes dangerous ways.

    5.We panic and lose perspective

    We are constantly losing a sense of what matters and what doesn’t. We are – as the expression goes –
    constantly ‘losing perspective’. That’s what philosophers are good at keeping a hold of. On hearing the
    news that he’d lost all his possessions in a shipwreck, the Stoic philosopher Zeno simply said: ‘Fortune
    commands me to be a less encumbered philosopher.’ It’s responses like these that have made the very
    term ‘philosophical’ a byword for calm, long-term thinking and strength-of-mind, in short, for
    perspective.

    To sum-up, philosophy is defined as the “SCIENCE of all that exist in their ultimate cause through the aid
    of human intellect alone”.

    What are the major questions that Philosophers ponder upon?

    In the course of their studies and inquiries, philosophers touch upon many subjects and concerns. There
    are a number of problems or questions, however that are considered to be exclusively in the domain of
    Philosophy. The major questions in Philosophy concern reality, certainty, causality, and ethics.
    Question of REALITY.

    Reality refers to the state of existence of things independent of human consciousness. In the broadest
    sense, reality inclusive physical things that we see, feel, taste, and smell, as well things that we cannot
    easily perceive and comprehend.

    Question of CERTAINTY.

    Certainty refers to perfect knowledge that is free from error or doubt. A central concept in the question
    of certainty is truth. Although we cannot be perfectly certain abut all things, philosophers use methods
    and approaches to reach conclusion with certain degree of certainty or truth in them.

    Question of CAUSALITY

    or the causes of events and phenomena. Philosophers analyze causality by examining events in the
    context of a cause-and-effect relationship. Philosophers try to understand the underlying principle that
    govern a certain phenomenon and uncover the true nature of such phenomenon.

    Questions of ETHICS

    Ethics deals with the standard of right and wrong which define human behavior. Ethics, as a field of
    study, discusses and defines concept and principles which are meant to govern reasoning and actions.A
    discussion on ethics seeks to formulate a set of standard and norms of “acceptable, ” “correct, ” and
    “good” behavior which are applied to daily life

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