2ND SEMESTER S.

Y 2023-2024 INSTRUCTOR: KC JOHN JIMENEZ

What is The Greek word philosophia

Philosophy?
goes back to the word
philosophos. It is presumably
coined by Heraclitus. This
indicates that for Him
philosophia did not yet exist

Martin Heidegger, (born September 26,

1889, Messkirch, Schwarzwald, Germany An aner philosophos is not a "philosophical" man.
—died May 26, 1976, Messkirch, West An aner philosophos is hos philei to sophon, he
Germany), German philosopher, counted who loves the sophon
among the main exponents of This correspondence is in accord with the sophon.
existentialism. Accordance is harmonia. That one being
His groundbreaking work in ontology (the philosophical reciprocally unites itself with another, that both are
study of being, or existence) and metaphysics originally united to each other because they are at
determined the course of 20th-century philosophy on each other's disposal- this harmonia is distinctive
the European continent and exerted an enormous feature of philein, "of loving" in the Heraclitean
influence on virtually every other humanistic discipline, sense.
including literary criticism, hermeneutics, The aner philosophos, loves the sophon (wisdom)
psychology, and theology
ETYMOLOGY
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indef Before answering the question, Sophia - Wisdom
analyze what the question is.
Focus on the question itself.
In Philosophy, we don't look for the fast and easy
way. You don't give and immediate answer on
what philosophy is.
Perhaps, on Heidegger's path we will never reach a
There are a lot of perspective and so we must be genuine, that is legitimate answer to the question,
careful and consider possible opinion. "What is philosophy?"
Proper Cohesion means looking for the direction of
the question. Focus on understanding the question
Heidegger's reflection is an open 'path" that is
certainly not the only one. A path that springs from The answer can only be a philosophizing answer.
truth which allow us to pose and answer the MAMILOSOPIYA TAYO!
question Our goal is not to answer but to understand what

First Way
Reflection
philosophy is

When we ask, "What is Philosophy?" Then we are

speaking about "Philsophy." By asking this way we
are obviously asking in the way we are obviously
taking a stand above and therefore, outside of
philosophy

Second Way
The aim of our question is to enter into
philosophy, to tarry in it, to conduct ourselves in its The philosophical act
manner, that is, to "philosophize." Or inquiry to Roque J. Ferriols, S.J. (full name:
discover what philosophy is should guarantee us that Roque Angel Jamias Ferriols) | Roque
we are moving within philosophy and not outside Ferriols, S.J. has left his mark on
of it and around it

Origin
several generations of philosophy
students from the Ateneo de Manila
University.
of Philosophy Fondly known as "Padre Roque" to later generations of
students, Ferriols can be credited with almost single-
handedly promoting the teaching of philosophy in
How to travel the path Filipino. More important and more lasting, however, is
of philosophy? his determination to impart the necessity of
pagmumuni-muni--of genuine thinking on one's
situation, to his students.
Listen to the word
"Philosophy" in Greek
WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO PHILOSOPHIZE?
using Greek ear. "We shall not begin with a definition of philosophy,"
says Fr. Ferriols SJ, in his essay "Insight." Like all activities,
philosophizing is something which is easier to do than
to define.
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Fr. Ferriols, introduces us to the act of

philosophizing by discussing insight as seeing
with the mind and the many ways of doing
something with the insight
WHEN IS AN INSIGHT PHILOSOPHICAL?
WHY DO WE PHILOSOPHIZE

"The act of questioning, of wanting to know, is

the initiation to philosophy," says John F.
Kavanaugh, S.J. And the first and fundamental
question is none other than the self
Who am I? The question of the self leads to the
question of
What am I to do? (Ethics) and to other
questions, such as
"What does it mean to know?

An unexamined life is not worth living

Socrates
Manuel dy
Philosophy and The Just Man
Manuel Dy, says that philosophizing is also related
to justice. Justice requires philosophy, for if
justice means giving to the other what is due to
him, it requires a reflection that is critical,
holistic, and committed--which philosophy is.
Ang pilosopiya ay nangangailangan ng katarungan,
dahil ang katotohanan bilang halaga ay hinihingi ng
pilosopo bilang isang patotoo, isang buhay na
ginagabayan ng katotohanan

Karl Jasper in his book "Way to Wisdom"

mentions three sources of philosophizing

Gabriel Marcel
To these, Marcel adds metaphysical
uneasiness. Metaphysical uneasiness is
to be distinguished from mere curiosity, for
here what one is unsure of is not
something outside but within oneself