Introduction to Philosophy

Philosophy and Ethics of Communication -

Contents 01 Preliminary

What is Philosophy
02  Definition
 Doing Philosophy and Philosophy as a Science

Philosophical Project

03
 Demitologisation
 Dialectics
Preliminary
• Assumptions
• complicated
• high-level technical languages
• Difficult to be grasped
• beautiful and wise, but unreachable
• Unimportant

• Status Questiones
• Are these assumptions true?
• What is the importance of studying philosophy?
• What is philosophy?

"Philosophers only interpret the world, but the most

important thing is to change it – Karl Marx
What is Philosophy
• Philosophy = ‘φίλος’ (phílos) + σοφία (sophia)
• ‘what does it mean ‘loving wisdom’?
• Loving = thinking
• How can we recognise that someone is thinking?
There must be a clear border between thinking
and daydreaming.
• Rene Descartes "cogito ergo sum" (I think,
therefore I am)  skepticism
• .Thinking = questioning
• Limitation of mind
• Man by nature desires to know
• Definitions of Philosophy
• Ordinary sense
• Scientific sense
• Philosophy as a science
• Material  Being
• what is Being?  analogy)
• Esse unum, bonum, verum, et pulchrum est

• Formal  speculative and deductive

• Empirism vs Rationalism
Philosophical Project
• Contextual: Eastern vs Western
• Characteristic of each context
• Why Western is preffered
• Astonishments  inquiry  myth  philosophy
• Cosmocentric  anthropocentric  Theocentric
• Renaissance  Rebirth of Hellenistic
• Modern  Methods
• Aufklarung  sapere aude
• Positivism  Conventionalism
• Contemporary  diffusion, anti-modern
Dialectical Thinking
• Ecletical dialogue
• Known from its negative
• Hegelian Dialectics (Being, non-Being, Becoming)
• Materialism Dialectics
What is the importance of Philosophy
for Communication Science learners?
Section Break