PHILOSOPHY

LECTURE 1
THE BEGINNINGS OF DOING PHILOSOPHY
 Principle is “Fides quaerens intellectum” (Faith seeking
understanding)
ANCIENT PERIOD  Makes faith reasonable
 Developed Christian Philosophy
The Milesians
 Thales Scholastics
 Anaximander  Referred as school men and masters of the school
 Anaximenes  Principle is “Credu ut intelligam (I believe I may
understand
Thales
 Reality is Water Modern Period (17th to 20th Centuries)
 Earth is flat
 Monopolized the Olive Oil Trade Rene Descartes
 An astronomer for no clear reason  Cogito, ergo sum (I think, therefor I am)
 Monist  Empiricism, Rationalism, and Positivism

Anaximander Immanuel Kant

 Fundamental substance of reality is infinite or apeiron  Saperde aude (Dare to Know)
 Earth is cylindrical and suspended in space
 First philosopher to attempt to draw a map Isaac Newtown
 Newtonian Physics
Anaximenes  Laws of motion
 Air holds our soul together
 Earth is flat and round like saucers 20th Century Philosophy
 Monist
Existentialism is the philosophical belief we are each responsible for
creating purpose or meaning in our own lives
Pythagoras
 Philosophy and religion are connected and merged into one
 Philosophy and mathematics are good for the purification
of the soul
 Contemplative life and Elation
 Reality is constituted by numbers

Heraclitus
 The only thing permanent is change
 You do not step in the same river twice
 Change is like a fire

Parminedes
 Leader of Eleatic school
 The only thing permanent is being
 Inspired Phenomenology and Existentialism

Empedocles
 Believed himself as an immortal with magical powers
 Reality is made up of four elements: fire, earth, air, water
 Pluralist

Known for Cosmocentrism, A vision of reality that places the

highest importance or emphasis in the universe or nature, as opposite
to an anthropocentric vision, which strongly focuses on humankind as
the most important element of existence.

TheoCentric

Patristics
 Refers to fathers of the church

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