During Athens “Golden Age” philosophy started to take over. A philosopher is a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, and logic. They were also known as “lovers of wisdom”. Philosophers taught through questioning about life, family, friends, and religion. Socrates, a philosopher that came about during the birth of…
Socrates was the original philosopher. Socrates dies from headlock, he had the choice to live a lonely life with food and water or to take the poison and he picked the headlock, because He believed the search for truth would lead to proper conduct. “The unexamined life is not worth living”, that was the quote that Socrates believed by saying that the purpose of life was personal and spiritual growth. Considered the nature of beauty, knowledge and what is right. His method was to ask questions, to try to expose the flaws in his fellow Athenians' preconceived notions. Socrates went on to teach Plato, the next great Athenian philosopher.…
Philosophy was God, earth and man and they were doctrine by commandments of God that were given by Word of God to Moses.…
Philosophy is the critical examination of our foundational beliefs concerning the nature of reality, knowledge, and truth, and our moral and social values.…
Ancient Greece philosophy began with the concepts created by such great figures as Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Pythagoras whose philosophies helped shape great fathers of philosophy such as the Sophist, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle.…
In the Ancient Greek civilization, philosophy meant an organized system of thought. Ancient Greeks loved the concept…
Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge or wisdom generally topic specific. Philosophers aim to answer three main questions which have become the three primary branches of technology. Metaphysics seeks to answer questions relating to being or existence. Epistemology seeks to answer questions relating to knowledge (criteria, sources, limits, ect.). The third branch of philosophy seeks to answer questions relating to values and has four sub groups: 1. Moral philosophy (moral judgments), .2. Social Philosophy (society and institutions), 3. Political philosophy (justification and ethically proper organizations). And 4. Aesthetics (art and value judgments about art).…
Philosophy is defined as the study of the basic principles and concepts of a particular branch of knowledge; embracing and seeking wisdom through reason and the logical presentation of ideas. This concept, I believe, is to strip an idea down to its fundamental basis or theory, analyzing cause rather than effect, then through investigation and exercise, begin to find understanding. When this concept is applied to an existing practice, all parties benefit from an equal and larger pool of knowledge. As a nurse, I see firsthand how philosophy applies to my profession.…
Philosophy is the rational analysis of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct; the pursuit of happiness. The greek translation for Philosophy means the love of wisdom. The love of wisdom, as discussed in class, is best modelled after a quote by Pope Benedict XVI: “The world can offer you comfort, but you were not made for comfort. You were made for greatness.” It is pushing and venturing outside of your comfort zone in search for the knowledge and understanding that wisdom offers. There are many concepts often misconstrued in philosophy that we discussed in class. For example, it is a misconception when people come to the conclusion that there are no correct answers in Philosophy. It is a fact that there are indeed correct answers…
Philosophy is the search for wisdom and truth. Philosophy is the study of examining and thinking about the knowledge, nature, truth, and meaning of life. Philosophy makes you utilize your sense of logic and reason to help you understand reality. It helps you to be able to have thought-provoking, meaningful conversations about knowledge, life, human nature, and morality. Philosophers try to approach questions by examining their own personal beliefs and then they start to doubt the validity of their own beliefs. One prominent philosopher is Plato. Plato is one of the world’s most widely read and known philosophers. Plato was a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. Plato made a great impact on the Western thought’s development, on our understanding of nature and reality, and he made a great impact on the knowledge we can have. Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave” is one of the best known writings in Philosophy that attempted to answer questions such as “why are we here?” and “what is reality?”. In…
What is philosophy? Philosophy is the pursuit of the truth. Philosophy is interested in obtaining the truth and objective about important concepts, human beings and the world. The objective knowledge has two set ideas about philosophy; they are timeless and changeless. Asking questions does obtaining objective knowledge and gaining an understanding. Questions are asked through guided reason and language.…
myself, to gain a better understanding for exploring such a concept. Still, how do I truly know…
During this period in history, taking place c. the fifth century, Greece was in frequent interaction with Egypt and Persia. Because of this and the different cultural influences that came with the contact between these civilizations, Greece was inspired to begin thinking about the world in new ways. This interest of the Greeks in the lifestyles of opposing cultures was responsible for the evolution of philosophy into what it is today. This is because prior to the interaction of Greece, Persia and Egypt, philosophy was nothing like it has come to be like today, meaning topics like humanity and morality were not the focus of philosophy but ideas such as science, math and political theory were. “ ...contemporary desire for wisdom and an approach to attaining it owes much to the methods laid down by the Greeks.…
A philosophy is a complicated detailed system of ideas about human nature and the reality of the world which the humans have inhibited. Philosophy provides guidelines for living and discusses basic issues. Philosophy raises the deepest and widest questions in human mind. "There…
Philosophy comes from the Greek word for “love of wisdom”. Greek philosophy led to historiography, the study of political science and science, and mathematics. A Greek philosopher is a Greek thinker that believes that the human mind could anything and everything. Philosophers were also teachers. Their “students” were called pupils. Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher that believed the universe followed the same laws that governed music. He also thought that all relationship could be shown by numbers. Because he believed that, he developed many new ideas about mathematics. Many people still know him today because of the Pythagorean Theorem, which is still used in geometry today.…