The Universal and the Particular - Philosophy 2Q

Socrates

He said, "An unexamined life is not worth living."

Reflection

It is perceiving, thinking, doubting, believing, reasoning, knowing, and willing.

John Locke

He defined reflection.

Philosophical question

Difficult questions that do not have definite answers. They matter and reflect our desire to understand our experiences.

Freedom

Philosophy allows us to have this to ask questions, even to others who believe of a definite answer.

Philosophical reflection

It refers to the contemplation and analysis of educational concepts and practices from a philosophical perspective, often involving critical thinking and cultural reflection.

Final and conclusive

Philosophy doesn't dictate this kind of answer.

Bigger

Philosophical questions always contain this kind of problem (why am I here, what am I here for?).

Meticulous analysis of situation

The meaning of philosophical relfection.

Distinguishes humans from other animals

The significance of a philosophical reflection.

The Blind Men and the Elephant

It is an ancient parable used today as a warning for people that promote absolute truth or exclusive religious claims.

Particular

Part of the whole

Universal

Pertains to the whole

Isolation

A philosophical question cannot be separated from the experiences from which they arise.

Holistic perspective

In order to philosophize, you need to look life from this perspective.

Martin Heidegger

A German Philosopher who's main philosophy is about freedom and truth.

Totality of beings, inquiries into the whole

If a scientific question is always confined to a particular, then a philosophical questions leads into a ______ ___ _______ and __________ ____ ____ ________.

Essence

The most important or fundamental part of something, its core nature or character.

Does not

Heidegger does/does not treat freedom in the traditional moral or political sense.

Possibility of truth

The ground which Heidegger believes freedom is on, a condition that allows beings to show up as they are.

Letting-be of beings

Heidegger believes that freedom is about allowing beings appear in their beingness.

Unconcealment

Heidegger believes that truth isn;t merely a matter of correctness but a matter of revealing of beings.

Freedom

For truth to happen, this is required to allow things to show up as they are.

Dasein

Heidegger's term for human existence.

Dasein

Heidigger believes freedom is deeply tied to this term which is the being that asks the question of Being.

Heidegger

He said, "Freedom is that which reveals, that which lets beings be."

Plato

He said, "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."