Who/What Am I?
I can study philosophy if it brings me closer to my religion.
Who is a Muslim student?
The study of knowledge, truth, and the nature of ultimate reality.
What is philosophy?
The branch of philosophy that seeks to understand the nature of ultimate reality.
What is Metaphysics?
The study of what knowledge is, how we know, what makes a belief rational to hold, and what actually constitutes knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
The Crash Course video says there is a third key philosophical concept called _______ that helps us understand how we should act or do and what we should attach meaning to.
What is Value Theory?
I dreamt I was a happy butterfly but awoke a man, not knowing if I was then still a butterfly dreaming I was a man.
Who is the (Chinese) philosopher Chuang Chou Zhuangzi?
The term philosophy comes from these two Greek words that mean friend and wisdom.
What is philo and sophia?
In Greek, the words meta and physics means this.
What is beyond and natural things.
The belief that we can know only what we discover through the scientific method.
What is Scientific Empiricism?
The branch of value theory philosophy that studies and evaluates human conduct.
What is Ethics?
I am arguably the original and most celebrated philosopher from ancient Greece, 300 years before the birth of Christ. I famously declared, "The unexamined life is not worth living."
Who is Aristotle?
These are the three key questions which philosophers seek to answer.
What is ultimately real?
What does it mean to know?
With what part of our being do we contemplate these questions?
Some philosophers are _____ because they believe that reality consists ultimately of one sort of thing. The most common form of this belief is materialism, which maintains that all reality is material.
What are monists?
The part of our being which we use to contemplate philosophical questions - when we think about how we know what it is to know.
What is our mental powers?
The branch of value theory philosophy that studies the nature of beauty.
What is aesthetics?
“Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, moved by no other; and this everyone understands to be God.”
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
There are two main branches of philosophy. The first is the study of ultimate reality.
What is Metaphysics?
Other philosophers are _____ who believe that reality consists of two sorts of things. The most common form of this maintains that the universe consists of both material and immaterial entities and properties. According to this view, the soul, an immaterial entity, is just as real as the physical body to which it is united.
What is dualism?
The study of the relationship between the mind (mental events, mental functions, mental properties, and consciousness) and the physical body.
What is the mind/body problem?
The "philosopher's toolbox."
What is logic.
This "parlor trick" question is most often credited to me, "If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?"
Who is George Berkeley (1685-1753)?
There are two main branches of philosophy. The second listed in the textbook seeks to understand the nature of knowledge.
What is Epistemology?
These philosophers are monists who believe that only the material world exists.
What are naturalists?
Bonus: Tell us about the Allegory of the Cave.
Men are trapped in a cave, only seeing shadows, since birth. (She shadows represent a limited perception of reality; material objects (not forms like the outside world).) One man escapes and realizes there are realer things than shadows, and tries to inform the others, but they attempt to kill him.
It represents how many people are trapped in ignorance and how philosophy is what can lead them to the light
Aristotle's three virtues of rhetoric were logos, ____, and ___
What are ethos and pathos?