1st Quarter Performance Task in Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

Submitted by; Marvin Jayson M. Pasaan & Renil V. Ibanez

Submitted to; Ma’am Mary Rose G. Olaya

 History of Philosophy

Philosophy has been around since the dawn of western civilization. The golden age of Greek
philosophy took place in Athens in the 5th century BC. The works of Socrates, Plato, and
Aristotle informed thousands of years of thought, becoming central to thought in the Roman
world, the Middle Ages, and then resurfacing in the renaissance and later.

Starting at the height of the Roman republic, Christian thought was central to philosophy at least
until the enlightenment. In the 18th century, questions of how we come to know what we believe
we know (epistemology), and new ethical schools began to form. By the late 1800’s, questions of
language, logic, and meaning took center stage, and the 20th century played host to one of the
largest bursts of philosophical work ever seen. Today philosophical thought is applied to almost
every component of life, from science to warfare, politics to artificial intelligence.

(Source: https://superscholar.org/history-of-philosophy/)
 Biographies of Philosophers

 Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

 Italian Dominican theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas was one of the most influential
medieval thinkers of Scholasticism and the father of the Thomistic school of
theology. Combining the theological principles of faith with the philosophical
principles of reason, Saint Thomas Aquinas ranked among the most influential
thinkers of medieval Scholasticism. An authority of the Roman Catholic Church and
a prolific writer, Aquinas died on March 7, 1274, at the Cistercian monastery of
Fossanova, near Terracina, Latium, Papal States, Italy. The son of Landulph, count of
Aquino, Saint Thomas Aquinas was born circa 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy, near
Aquino, Terra di Lavoro, in the Kingdom of Sicily. Thomas had eight siblings, and
was the youngest child. His mother, Theodora, was countess of Teano. Though
Thomas' family members were descendants of Emperors Frederick I and Henry VI,
they were considered to be of lower nobility. Before Saint Thomas Aquinas was born,
a holy hermit shared a prediction with his mother, foretelling that her son would enter
the Order of Friars Preachers, become a great learner and achieve unequaled sanctity.

 Works of Thomas Aquinas: Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–1259), the Summa

contra Gentiles (1259–1265), and Summa Theologica, or Summa Theologiae (1265–
1274)

(Source: https://www.biography.com/religious-figure/saint-thomas-aquinas)
  Rene Descartes (1596–1650)
 Philosopher and mathematician René Descartes is regarded as the father of modern
philosophy for defining a starting point for existence, “I think; therefore I am.” René
Descartes was extensively educated, first at a Jesuit college at age 8, then earning a
law degree at 22, but an influential teacher set him on a course to apply mathematics
and logic to understanding the natural world. This approach incorporated the
contemplation of the nature of existence and of knowledge itself, hence his most
famous observation, “I think; therefore I am.” Descartes was born on March 31, 1596,
in La Haye en Touraine, a small town in central France, which has since been
renamed after him to honor its most famous son. He was the youngest of three
children, and his mother, Jeanne Brochard, died within his first year of life. His
father, Joachim, a council member in the provincial parliament, sent the children to
live with their maternal grandmother, where they remained even after he remarried a
few years later. But he was very concerned with good education and sent René, at age
8, to boarding school at the Jesuit college of Henri IV in La Flèche, several miles to
the north, for seven years.

 Works of Rene Descartes: Compendium Musicae (1618), The Word (originally Le

Monde, published posthumously in 1664), L’Homme (published posthumously in
1662), Discourse on the Method (1637), Geometry (1637), Principles of Philosophy
(1641) and the Passions of the Soul (1649).

(Source: https://www.biography.com/scholar/rene-descartes)