SESSION 3 - GOD gave us intellect or mind (faculty of

reason) to figure out things on our own. The

DOING PHILOSOPHY faculty of reason or rational capacity allows us
- When the individual start to ask questions and to pursue our questions so we can come nearer
wondering about life, he began to search and to the truth.
find meaning of it, then he is doing Philosophy. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
- Therefore, If one begins to THINK, one begins
to PHILOSOPHIZE. - German philosopher who stated that scientific
questions is always confined to the particular,
whereas a philosophical question “lead into the
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS totality of beings” and “inquires into the whole”.
- scientific questions = particular
- It is a step-by-step process in which you are (refers to a part of a whole.)
trying to reflect or evaluate your own - philosophical question = whole / universal
experiences first before making any action to it.
G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)
FALLACY
- Philosopher known as “German Idealism”
- A failure in reasoning or flawed reasoning that which shared Plato’s view that ideas are real as
leads to an invalid or unsound argument. opposed (disagree) to matters.
Karl Marx (1818-1883)
PHILOSOPHERS (SoPlaMaHeKa) - He was trained in Philosophy but later turned to
Socrates (469-399 B.C.E) economics and politics.
- Communism, Utopia, All workers unite…
- “Know Thyself”
- Socratic Method - a form of cooperative Latin Maxim
“Minima Maxima Sunt” which literally means
argumentative dialogue between individuals,
the smallest things are the most important.
based on asking and answering questions to
stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas
and underlying presuppositions.
- His commitment to philosophy was the reason
he was condemned to death.
Plato (427-347 B.C.E)
- To know what is real requires much intellectual
effort and rational ability.
- Plato warned that there are things that deceive,
confuse, or mislead in this world.
- He believed that we are responsible in the truth
that we hold and that we are to blame in case
we are fooled into believing a falsehood.

So how do we guard against deception?