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This document provides an introduction to the philosophy of the human person. It defines philosophy as the love of wisdom and discusses its main branches including epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. The history of philosophy is then summarized, beginning with early Greek philosophers like Pythagoras, Thales of Miletus, and Heraclitus. Key figures in the development of philosophical thought on the human person are also mentioned, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Ibn al-Nafis, Descartes, and Spinoza. The document concludes that philosophy arises from humanity's innate desire to understand the world and seek answers to life

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Philo Handout 1

This document provides an introduction to the philosophy of the human person. It defines philosophy as the love of wisdom and discusses its main branches including epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, and aesthetics. The history of philosophy is then summarized, beginning with early Greek philosophers like Pythagoras, Thales of Miletus, and Heraclitus. Key figures in the development of philosophical thought on the human person are also mentioned, such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, Ibn al-Nafis, Descartes, and Spinoza. The document concludes that philosophy arises from humanity's innate desire to understand the world and seek answers to life

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INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN PERSON SHC PHILO 12

Introduction to Philosophy of Human Person • Socrates


• First moral philosopher; Known for his Socratic Method (elenchus);
Core Subject Description: This subject is an introduction to the activity and Teacher of Plato; “Stresses that man must take good care of its soul”; “All
process of philosophical reflection as a search of synoptic vision of life. The human beings desire the good”
topics to be discussed include the human experiences of embodiment, being • Plato
the world with others and the environment, freedom, intersubjectivity, • Student of Socrates and Teacher of Aristotle; Founder of the Academy
sociality and being upon death of Athens; “the soul is immortal, even the physical ceased to exist”
• Existence of abstract objects
Definition of Philosophy “Virtue is knowledge” ; The soul is the principle which explains all life
Philosophy • Aristotle
• Philos – “Love”; Sophia – “Wisdom” • Student of Plato and Teacher of Alexander the Great; On his treatise,
• Philosopher – “lover of wisdom” Peri Psyche, the soul is divided into three types and each according to each
• “Philosophy is the knowledge of all things through their ultimate causes, living being
acquired through the use of reason” • Saint Augustine of Hippo
• Material Object of Philosophy: “philosophy studies all things”; thus all • Bishop of Hippus region of North Africa; Combined Christian doctrine
aspects of reality can be the object of a philosophical study with Platonic ideology; Believed that everything is connected with God
• Formal Object of Philosophy: “through their ultimate causes”; seeking • Saint Thomas Aquinas
the deepest explanations regarding the existence and nature of beings. • “Believed that truth is to be accepted no matter where it is found”;
• Natural Scope of Philosophy: “acquired through the use of reason; Followed Aristotelian philosophy; Reaffirmed the three types of soul (first
seeking the ultimate explanations that can be arrived at by applying written by Aristotle)
reasoning to facts supplied by experience. • Ibn al-Nafis
• First to describe the pulmonary circulation of the circulatory system;
Branches of Philosophy Believed that the soul is found throughout the entirety of the body, not just
• Epistemology – studies the nature of knowledge and the rationality of belief; one of its organs
the means of production of knowledge • Rene Descartes
• Metaphysics – studies and asks questions about the essence and existence • Father of Modern Western Philosophy; Father of Analytical Geometry;
of a being Cogito ergo sum (“I think therefore I am”); Believed that the mind and body is
• Logic – concerned with “reasoning” or truth distinct but closely joined
• Ethics/Axiology – concerns the matter of “value/morality” • Baruch Spinoza
• Aesthetics – explores the nature and appreciation of art, beauty and taste • One of the pioneers of the Dutch Golden Age; Opposed Descartes’
mind-body dualism; Substance vs. Accidence; No one is intrinsically good
History of Philosophy or evil
• Pythagoras
• Ionian Greek Philosopher; First person to name himself a philosopher Nature of Philosophy
or lover of wisdom; Known for his Pythagorean Theorem in geometry • Human being possesses a keen desire to know, and that leads him to seek
• Thales of Miletus the causes of events or happenings • His search for knowledge is induced by
• First person to explain the world and universe outside mythological theoretical considerations, as well as practical reasons • He needs to find the
concepts; He explained that the world was made up of “water” ; Teacher of answers to many questions about things existing around him
Pythagoras.
• Heraclitus
• He believed that the world originated from the fire element
INSTRUCTOR: MR. JOHN KHARLO BRAVO ARQUIZA (johnkharlobravoarquiza@gmail.com) Lecture Handout 1

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