Reviewer in Philosophy

Other philosophical branches and concept

1. Cosmology
- Philosophy that deals with origin and development of the universe.
- Greek word “kosmo” means world or universe.
2. Ontology
- Meta-physics that studies the nature of existence of things and status of reality.
- Also referred as the theory of being.
3. Psychology
- The science that deals with the science of mind, mental state, and processes.
- Greek word “psyche” means soul, mind, and spirit.
4. Theodicy
- Deals with the nature being and goodness of God.
5. Logic
- Deals with the nature of thinking and reasoning.
6. Semantics
- The study of linguistic development by classifying.
- Greek word “semantikos” significant and “sema” means assign or mark.
7. Ethics
- Greek word “ethos” means custom.
8. Aesthetic
- Study that pertain which the sense of the beautiful and its characterized by a love of beauty.
- Greek word “aesthetikos” means one who is perspective of things through his sensations,
feeling, and institutions.

The methods that commonly use where:

1. Induction
- Method of drawing general conclusions from particular or individual experiences.
2. Deduction
- Method prefers to the process of our minds by way of reasoning proceeds from general to
specific terms.
3. Dialectic
- Method is referred to ask a process of arriving at knowledge through the questions and
answer technique.
4. Analytic
- Concept which consist of theories that are develop.
5. Romantic
- The tendency to base our view of feelings and instincts.
6. Synoptic
- According to Plato is a grasping of anything in comprehensive views.

The theory of knowledge

 1. The objective theory
- This theory asserts that there is a world outside of ourselves which exist
2. Conception and Conceivable
- Knowing of universal force which are express concept us plants, lions, birds, and human
beings.

Other resources of knowledge

1. Customs and traditions

2. Sense perception
3. Intuition
4. Authority
5. Reason

The problem of knowledge

Sophist

- One of the oldest positive theories of knowledge

Barriers adherence authority

1. Blind adherence of authority

2. Propaganda
3. Prejudice
4. Fallacies of reasoning
- Contextual fallacies
1. Fallacies of reason
2. Fallacies of example.

Monism means any of various theories that there is one basic substance and principle.

Dualism means a theory that a object and datum of recognition are identical.

According to St. Thomas Acquinas , the soul is the first principle of life in things where we live.

Man is made up of body, soul and spirit.

Charles R. Darwin, an English naturalist, who postulate that the origin of species derived from by
descent.

Essence which is the intrinsic nature of man treats the various opinions that have been expressed.

Family the smallest but the most important unit of society.

Home where love, caring, sharing, forgiveness and understanding define.

Church can serve as a reservoir of knowledge needed in the moral development of the child.

The four social institutions

1. Family
 2. Religion
3. Education
4. Government

Existentialists believe that institutions are taking humanity out of human being.

Educators maintain that the distinguishing characteristic of man is his rational faculty.