Lesson

1. Philōsōphy of Human
Persōn
Introduction to
by: Sir Patrick B. Casiao

2. Came from two GREEK words
PHILO
means love ❤️
SOPHIA
means wisdom 🧠
“love of wisdom”
It uses human reason to
investigate the ultimate
causes and principles
which govern all things.

3. • A lover of wisdom.
• He/she puts meaning to what is out there.
• Open for changes and discovery.
• He/she never stops knowing, wondering, and
asking questions.
• Hunger for truth, meaning, and sense.
• Someone who goes beyond the circus of
things, experiences transcendent and possesses
an acquiring mind.

4. Philōsōp
hy
Characteristics of
Framework
Examination of Knowledge
Discipline

5. Framework
. . . a way of thinking about the world
and is composed of views and beliefs
of a person.
- Abella, 2016

6. Examination of Knowledge
The principles of Philosophy can be
also used as an examination of other
disciplines or particular areas of
knowledge.

7. Such as:
Scientist
Concerns with
knowledge.
Historian
Knowledge with the
past's events.
Economist
Knowledge of the
supply and
demand.
A philosopher’s concerns in
self with the nature of
knowledge.
It embraces all types of
knowledge.

8. Discipline
. . . seeks truth about the ultimate
questions about reality, the good,
and the meaning of life . . .

9. The Mother of the
Human and Natural
Sciences.

10. Philōsōp
hy
• Greece is the birthplace of
philosophy in the west.
• To be more precise it is the ancient
Greek city of Miletus on the Western
coast of what is now Turkey that
gave birth to philosophy.
ORIGIN

11. Philōsōp
hy
• It is in this city that the first
philosopher in the West, Thales, lived.
• Thales is the Father of Philosophy in
Western civilization.
• He lived between 624 and 546 BCE a
contemporary of the Lydian king
Croesus and the statesman Solon.
ORIGIN

12. In terms of scope philosophy involves the widest generalizations.
While people concern themselves with shoes and clothes, the latest
gossip about their favorite celebrities, their crushes, philosophers
concern themselves with big issues pertaining to the truth, the good,
the just, the beautiful, and the existence of practically all things.
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13. All about fundamentals.
A fundamental is the root cause that explains almost everything in
each context.
To understand this, imagine that knowledge is like a building with
levels.
Now the higher level depends on the lower levels.
If somehow the lower-level crumbles, then all the higher levels that
rest upon it will collapse.
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14. Driven by the desire to integrate things into one coherent whole.
As the celebrated philosopher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel said,
“The true is the Whole”.
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15. • What is real?
• Further subdivided into ontology
which studies existence as such and
philosophical anthropology which
deals with the fundamental and
essential characteristics of human
nature.
Philōsōp
hy
Branches of
Metaphysics
/ Reality /

16. • How do we know?
• To guide us in knowing since we
make mistakes from time to time.
Philōsōp
hy
Branches of
Epistemology
/ Knowledge /

17. • What is of value?
• Code of values to guide man’s
choices and actions - the choices
and actions that determine the
course of his life.
Philōsōp
hy
Branches of
Ethics
/ Right and Wrong, Justice /

18. • How should societies be governed?
• The principles of a proper social
system.
Philōsōp
hy
Branches of
Politics
/ Government & Society /

19. • What is beauty?
• Studies the nature of art.
• It is concerned with nature and the
objective judgment of beauty.
Philōsōp
hy
Branches of
Aesthetics
/ Art and Beauty /