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2 FORMS OF DEFINITIONS:
1. NOMINAL
- Philosophy comes from Greek words
philo – friend or love
sophia – wisdom
Therefore it is love of wisdom. It seeks knowledge. Not only knowledge
but the truth about the acquired knowledge.
2. REAL
- Philosophy is the science of all that exist (of beings) in their
ultimate cause through the aid of human intellect.
ELEMENTS in the DEFINITION of PHILOSOPHY
In their Ultimate Cause – it asks and answers not only facts and
proximate causes but the deepest causes of everything.
- it gives answers not only in the “WHAT” but
most importantly to the “WHY”
Through the Aid of the Human Intellect Alone
- because Philosophy uses natural reasons and not the Divine
Revelation of the recourse to the Bible.
- a product of one’s own thinking and not of imagination or fantasy
- Philosophy starts to work with these facts, use these facts and thru this
facts which makes man(genuine philosopher) to be interested of. That this
man started to help or can aid man(ordinary man) determine the
significance of these facts.
The method of philosophy interprets and explain the ultimate relation and
meaning of facts. It becomes clear when these facts shows its relation to
the totality of man’s experience. Thru this, man(philosopher) come up a
conclusion from the facts of human experience, meaning, and purposes of
living.
RELATIONSHIP OF PHILOSOPHY TO SCIENCE and ART
The study of Philosophy has value and effects to the lives of the people
who study and live with it.
*Ontology- studies the nature of human being’s existence as individual, in society and in the universe
- like “Who we are?”, “What we are for?”, “Do we make real freewill choices? Or are external
forces controlling our outcome?”
Pure Philosophy or Speculative Philosophy