“Do not confuse

the forest for the

trees”
Philosophy
 Philosophy
Comes from two Greek words, philo,
meaning “to love” and sophia,
meaning “wisdom”
Developed when humanity began
trying to explain the nature and origin
of the universe through reasoning and
observation.
Your mother asked you to go to the market
and you asked her what items you need to
buy.

Your mother asked you to go to the market

and you asked how much is the budget to
take with you.

Your mother asked you to go to the market

and you asked yourself,” Why do people
have to buy things when God created nature
where these goods come from?”
Philosophical
Reflection
 Philosophical Reflection/
Question
It is to think about an important question
that does not have a definite or ready
answer.

“Why am I here?”
“Why was I ever born?”
“What am I here for?”
“What is the purpose of my existence?”
“Why love when you get hurt?”
WALANG
Philosophical
Thinking
State where one begin to agree or
disagree in a statement.
Philosophy does not
dictate conclusive or final
answers to philosophical
questions.
Example:

What is love?
 Note:
Philosophicalreflection/ question
do not simply inquire about a
specific or objective questions
rather always contains a bigger
problem.

Example:
Why am I here?
We may ask the following
questions:
1. Why do I have to go to
school?
2. Why is love complicated?
3. Why do people have to die?
4. Does destiny really exist?
 Metaphysics
A branch of philosophy that deals
with the so called “being of
beings”.
Comes from Greek word, “meta”
meaning beyond and “physika”
meaning the physical things.
UNIVERSAL
and
PARTICULAR
Particular
Part of a
Whole

Universal
Whole
Why
am I
here?
Philosophers
Martin Heidegger
Philosophy is different from science, for a
scientific question is always confined to
the particular, whereas a philosophical
question “leads into the totality of beings”
and inquires into the world”.
Author of the “Essence of Human
Freedom”
 Take Note!
Every person engaged in philosophical
reflection must recognized possible
answers to philosophical questions
requires adequate justification or rational
basis.
Plato
Student of Socrates who founded a school
in Athens known as the Academy.
There are things that deceive, confuse, or
misled in this world.
How do we
guard
against
deceptions?
INTELLECT
OR MIND
(Faculty of reason)