Issues Aroused

• Objective truth and

Subjective truth
• Truthful
RECAP
The Nature of Philosophical Act
is to ask questions to arrive at
the truth
Is a kind of seeing with
Insight the mind
Not just by your eyes
But with the mind
How do we arrive at an
insight?
 How do we arrive at an
insight?
Some people spend most of their time doing
things that do not really mean anything
substantial

Some of us ae consumed by a world of

mere appearances
 This is the Fucked up you

Doing Things that do 10%

not really mean any-
thing substantial 12%

Other Substantial 10%

Things

68%

Other Substantial
Things

Other Substantial
Things
This is why we do
Philosophy
Philosophical Act is not just
asking what is truth but also
the effort to bring ourselves
closer to the truth.
It means that we give value to
the truth/reality

We make sense of reality just

like how we give sense to the
senseless things that you do!
We begin to truly think
Meaning, Philosophical act
does not merely analyze the
meaning of words, but it is
grounded in experience
 A Pencil
But we do not just look at it and tell that it
is a pencil.

But we think of your experience with that

pencil
 Knowledge comes from our
LIVED EXPERIENCE
 When we learn how we to come into
knowing by our lived experience

We may enter into a dialogue with our

inner selves
 A Pencil

What is it to you?
We can only begin to truly live when
we find ourselves in particular
situations which put life into a basic
question.
That is why we need to have an insight
as to the meaning of reality
"The unexamined life is not worth
living“
-Socrates
An Insight is a kind of seeing with the
mind
To realize the meaning of something

Making sense of the meaning of

something.
Knowing the Realizing the
Meaning Meaning
 A Pencil

What is it to you?
An Insight is something that emerges
when we are thrown into as situation
The PROCESS on arriving at an
insight is called ABSTRACTION
Abstraction-Conceptual Analysis of
reality

Looking into the various aspects of

objects
 A Pencil
Tip
(Lead, Graphite, Charcoal)
Ferule

The Body Rubber/Eraser

(Wood, Paint, )
But Abstraction analysis cannot really
exhaust the whole meaning of
experience
 A Pencil
Tip
A tool with tip, the body, the ferule and eraser
(Lead, Graphite, Charcoal)
Ferule

The Body Rubber/Eraser

(Wood, Paint, )
We search for what is truly whole

This search is never ending

Because these insights bring us into the
very heart of reality

and reality is superabundantly rich. The

richness of these insights reveals the
richness of reality itself
-Fr. Roque Ferriols
 Just like science

-Enables us to see the picture to the

physical aspect of things

-But it will never be able to fully

explain love
This Pencil is not a just a pencil
We develop Insight
Reflection
Examine
"The unexamined life is not worth
living“
-Socrates
 PRIMARY
&
Reflectio
SECONDARY
n
 Reflectio
PRIMARY
n
Refers to the process Directed at deriving
clear concepts about reality, we discover
from an objective point of view
 A Pencil
Tip
(Lead, Graphite, Charcoal)
Ferule

The Body Rubber/Eraser

(Wood, Paint, )
 Reflectio
SECONDARY
n
-Invites us to go deep into ourselves
- It has something to do with me and the object
of investigation
-Realization of the inseparability of the
situation and individual
What this Pencil have to do with me??????

What is it for me???????????????

Why the fuck am I
involved?
 Without you, no
meaning will emerge
You + The Object= Meaning
Secondary Reflection brings us
into awareness of our very own
existence.
It makes us fully aware of
ourselves
Secondary Reflection brings us
into awareness of our very own
existence.
It makes us fully aware of
ourselves
Breakout Rooms
How do you make sense of a
pencil?