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Doing Philosophy

This document provides an overview of philosophy and perspectives in philosophical thinking. It defines philosophy as the study of wisdom and the highest principles that govern all things. It discusses moral dilemmas like the trolley problem that philosophers explore to investigate intuitions. The document also differentiates a holistic perspective, which examines all factors that influence a system, from a partial perspective, which only considers one component of a whole. An example is used to illustrate how anthropologists may take a holistic view of a culture versus a view based on only one aspect.

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Doing Philosophy

This document provides an overview of philosophy and perspectives in philosophical thinking. It defines philosophy as the study of wisdom and the highest principles that govern all things. It discusses moral dilemmas like the trolley problem that philosophers explore to investigate intuitions. The document also differentiates a holistic perspective, which examines all factors that influence a system, from a partial perspective, which only considers one component of a whole. An example is used to illustrate how anthropologists may take a holistic view of a culture versus a view based on only one aspect.

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DOING PHILOSOPHY

WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?
• The word “philosophy” comes from two Greek words,
Philo meaning “to love”, and Sophia, meaning
“wisdom”.
• Philosophy is also defined as the science that by natural
light of reason studies the first causes or highest
principles of all things.
• Philosophy also means the “active pursuit of wisdom”
• Philosophy is the study or discipline that uses human
reason to investigate the ultimate causes, reasons, and
principles which govern all things.
As the Greek says:
“A man who refuses to have his own
philosophy will have the “
characteristics of a brute beast and be
left to his own instincts”
WHAT’S GOING ON HERE?
• Should you kill one person to save five?
• Trolley Dilemma = “yes”
• Surgeon Dilemma = “no”

• If you have two conflicting intuitions then either:


• there must be some morally relevant difference
between the two cases, or
• One or more of your intuitions is wrong
• So which is it?
Did Our Moral Common Sense get it
Wrong?
•Should you kill one person to save five?
•Trolley Dilemma = “yes”
•Surgeon Dilemma = “no”

•Does anyone think one answer is wrong?


Activity:
Holistic Perspective
• Holism comes from the Greek word "holos" which literally
means all, entire, totality. Holism is a school of thought that
maintains the interdependence of factors to another agencies
of causalities. In other words, properties of a given
phenomenon or system (e.g. philosophical, biological,
psychological, emotional, spiritual, social, political, linguistic)
cannot be determined by a certain structure or
component alone.
• Therefore,this kind of system aims to determine and explain
the whole or totality of a given system by examining the
behaviors and activities of certain component parts.
•Holism is widely used in research as one
of the many research methods. More
often than not, holism is used in
anthropology wherein an anthropologist
can begin to see interrelationship or
correlation of different components of a
culture.
Partial point of view
• In philosophy, a point of view is defined as a way or a
method how one sees or perceives the reality or a
phenomenon. Therefore, when one says a partial point
of view, he has clearly stated and admitted that the
way he sees reality or certain phenomenon is based on a
single factor or causal agency.
• A partial point of view then is a perspective that is
based on one of the component parts of a whole.
QUESTION!!!
DIFFERENTIATE HOLISTIC
PERSPECTIVE FROM
PARTIAL PERSPECTIVE
USING AN EXAMPLE.
Recap:
•What is Philosophy?
•What are the departments of philosophy?
•What is a holistic perspective?
•What is a partial perspective?
Seatwork!!!
In a ½ sheet of paper share
your experience regarding
the Holistic and Partial
Perspective.
THANK YOU!!!

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