1.
DEFINITION OF
PHILOSOPHIZING
Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

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ACTIVITY:
• Have you ever wondered the reason of your existence in the
world?
• What do you think is the paramount reason of your existence? Is it
for the good or evil? Explain.
• Have you ever wondered why different aspects of the society
existed? (e.g. politics, economics, religion, humanities, sports,
literature, etc.) Is it for the good or evil? Explain.

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PHILOSOPHIZING
•Act of engaging oneself with the question about things that
exists or going on in the environment

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BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY THAT ARE FACTORS
IN PHILOSOPHIZING:
• Phenomenology – philosophical study of existence and
consciousness
• Epistemology – philosophical study of knowledge and how to
justify its truthfulness
• Existentialism – philosophical study of the very reason of the
existence of human individual

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PHILOSOPHERS IN THE FIELD
OF PHILOSOPHIZING
Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

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1. Edmund Husserl
• German philosopher who founded the school of phenomenology
• He believes that we can find certainty, which philosophy has
always sought.
• “Every act of consciousness is direct at some object or another,
possibly a material object or an ideal object”

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2. Max Ferdinand Scheler
• German philosopher
• “Reason itself is not the proper participative faculty by which the
greatest level of knowing is achieved. Only when reason and logic
have behind them the movement of love and the proper moral
preconditions can one achieve philosophical knowledge.”
• Wonder is a loving concern for the world as it is in itself and marks
the transition from the practical to the philosophical

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3. Martin Heidegger
• German philosopher
• Thought the presence of things for us is not their being, but in their
utility or purpose
• Argued that all that philosophy could and should be is a
description of experience
• We experience the world of beings as containing things in which
we have an interest or concern

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4. Emmanuel Levinas
• French-Lithuanian philosopher
• Argued that responsibility for the other (in simpler terms, helping
other people) is rooted within our subjective constitution.
• Characterizes politics and drives as unfolding in a parallel fashion.
Both are sites for the manifestation of the will to persist in being.
• Vulnerability and sensitivity to trauma not only provoke retreat into
self but heighten our awareness, however tenuous, of our
connection with the other(s), and they motivate our bearing
witness.

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5. Friedrich Nietzsche
• German philologist and philosopher
• In his childhood, he showed no interest in Mathematics thus he
turned to religion, as commanded by his father
• “The drive for conservation appears as the major motivator of
human or animal behavior only in exceptions, as the general
condition of life is not one of emergency, of 'struggle for
existence.”
• Recommends the pursuit of knowledge as a way of life

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6. Alfred Schütz
• Austrian lawyer, philosopher and social phenomenologist
• Studied at University of Vienna for his law degree
• “How the meaning of an action to an actor depended upon the
project guiding the extended temporal process of the sub-acts
leading to its realization.”
• “One could not aim at affecting another’s already completed
action.”