Philo Q1

ultimate reality

Philosophers' first question is of _____

Parmenides

The Greek Philosopher who came up with the framework 'something is, something is not' which actually meant that the supposed changes that happen in a thing is not really a change since the essence or reality of a thing could never change nor destroyed despite the changes that happens in appearance.

Aesthetics

A branch of philosophy which deals with questions related to Beauty and Taste. Beauty means the quality attributed to whatever pleases the beholder: form, color, and behavior.

Metaphysics

A branch of philosophy which deals with questions related to Being and Existence). It studies the nature of the mind, the self, and consciousness. It is the science which deals with the nature of being, its attributes, constituents, principles, and causes.

Epistemology

A branch of philosophy which deals with questions related to Truth and Knowledge. This includes statement and solution to the critical problem, nature, origin, objectivity, and validity of knowledge, truth and certitude.

Axiology

A branch of philosophy which deals with questions related to Values. It is the study of the origin, nature, functions, types, and interrelations of values.

Logic

A branch of philosophy which deals with science of correct reasoning. "What makes good arguments good and bad arguments bad?"

the beginnings or origins of the entire universe (--of the "cosmos")

Cosmology studies questions about:

Aristotle

For this philosopher, the framework of good and right are already inside the human being, man is basically good and right. What needs to be done is to think and do good and right things.

Thales

The 'first philosopher' in the western civilization, who first inquired into the composition of things and their common element.

Socrates

The famous statement "An unexamined life is not worth living" is attributed to _____

Epistemology

Questions like "What is knowledge?" and "What is truth?" are mainstays in the branch of philosophy known as _____.

Axiology

the science of values

Epistemology

mainly asks us to consider the question, how do we know anything.

Heraclitus

Who said, "You cannot step in the same river twice." Because he asserted that the things around us were in the state of flux, meaning continuously flowing or changing.

Parmenides and Heraclitus

who represented two opposite position which great debate: permanence vs. change

true

(True or False) Philosophy does not base its knowledge on authority but solely on the reasoning power of the human mind. Divine revelation can and should assist the mind of man by pointing out the proper direction for the philosophical solution along purely natural line.

True

(true or false) Heraclitus was famous for saying that everything that is, is in a state of flux.

true

(true or false) Truth is the right relation between our words and our thoughts.