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Doing Philosophy
Doing Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY OF A
HUMAN PERSON
1. Listen attentively.
2. When called, kindly participate so the
discussion will continue.
3. Don’t make distractions.
4. Strictly no use of cellphones during the
class.
OBJECTIVES
1. discuss philosophy and its importance
as discipline and a means for
understanding life;
2. appreciate the value of philosophy in
daily life; and
3. become philosophical in dealing with
life and situations.
A murderer is sentenced
into death. He has to choose
between three rooms. The
first room is full of furious
flames. The second is full of
murderers with loaded guns.
And there are three lions in
the third room who had not
been fed for years. Which
room is the safest?
What questions
about your life are
you struggling to find
answers to?
Teacher: Juan, what would
you like to be when you
grow up?
Juan: Ma’am, I want to be
happy!
Teacher: Juan, you did not
understand my question.
Juan: Ma’am, you do not
understand what life is all
about.
1. Do you think that Juan’s answer was
appropriate for his teacher’s question?
2. What do you think was Juan’s
interpretation of his teacher’s question?
3. Based on his responses, what kind of
student do you imagine Juan to be?
4. If you were Juan’s teacher, how would
you respond to him?
Diogenes of Sinope
Great philosophers
Philosophy could enable man to
live a life of happiness.
His views gave rise to
Epicureanism – a school of
philosophy which believes that
wisdom and simple living will
result in a life free of fear and
Epicurus pain.
Great philosophers
Considered the foremost
philosopher of ancient times.
Believes that philosophy could
enable a man to live a life of virtue.
Formulated the Socratic Method –
a means of examining a topic by
devising a series of questions that
let the learner examine and
Socrates analyze his knowledge.
Great philosophers
Sense of wonder
Whenever we are confronted with
experience, we always wonder
how it came about. Some have no
definite answers.
Where did we come from? Why do
we exist?
Plato Small child curiosity
Great philosophers
He attended the academy and
prominent student of Plato.
All ideas and views are based on
perception and our reality is based
on what we can sense and
perceive.
Aristotle
Great philosophers
Studied logic that led to the
formulation of a formal process
analyzing reasoning which gave
rise to deductive reasoning – the
process of which specific
statements are analyzed to reach a
Aristotle conclusion or generalization.
Examples of deductive reasoning