Intro to Philosophy
What is Philosophy?
Thelove of wisdom
What is Truth?
The mind's conformity with fact or reality
What was the the Big Question from Pre-Socratic Philosophers:
What makes a thing what it is, even when it changes?
What is wonder
See an effect and desire to know its cause
What is the relationship between soul and body in a living thing?
the soul is the form of the body
What does philosophy begin with?
Wonder
Something cannot be both true and not true in the same way, same time, same respect
What does physics ask?
What is the world made of? How does it work?
What is physics
The study of natural world and its motion
What is act?
The way a thing is
Who are the two philosophers in the center of school of Athens?
Plato and Aristotle
What is relativism?
All truth is subjective or
“There is absolutely no absolute truth”
give me an example of an accidental and also a substantial change
Accidental Change: Something about the thing changes
Substantial Change: WHAT the thing is changes
What is metaphysics?
the study of reality and what it means for something to exist.
How would Aristotle define change/movement?
Going from potency to act
Why do philosophers say that philosophy begins with wonder?
It makes a person ask questions
What does Relativism Deprive us of?
Real faith,
Purpose, moral truth, etc
Plato uses the Allegory of the Cave to explain his
theory of forms,
process of education, coming to know the TRUTH
Define Hylomorphism
Physical things are a unity of matter and form.
Give me the main difference between TRUTH and Relativism
Truth: I minds conformity myself to reality.
Reality conforms to me/my mind
The measure of a good philosophy is
reality/TRUTH
What are 2 reasons relativism is attractive?
Tell me why it is neither these things
it seems humble, tolerant
Where did Aristotle think forms were
In things
List all the 4 causes and give an example
Material
Form
Efficient
Final
How is relativism self-defeating?
Relativism tries to make an absolute claim that there are no absolute claims. That's why it is self-defeating.