Talban, Angelo Luigi P. Hum.

001 Introduction to Philosophy Philosophy is the root and foundation of all things or matter and there causes.in this course I have learned a lot of things and their causes. This helped me to improve my critical thinking and problem solving skills and ability, communication skills, and social or ethical responsibility. It also improves my personality as a student and a son.one of the topics that I have learned and I admire because of his philosophical thought was Plato. He was a philosopher in classical Greece. He was also the student of the denotable Socrates and the founder of academy in Athens. The philosophical thought of Plato that Ive most admire was the theory of Forms. It refers to the belief that the real world as it seem to us was not the real world, but only an image or a copy of the real world. This theory always reminds me that the world where we live with was not our real home it was just a training ground or some like a battle ground that has a lesson to learn with. That God created the world for us to understand what is the true meaning of life. On the other side, one of the greatest philosopher that I have learned was the famous Aristotle. Like his teacher Plato, Aristotles philosophy aims at the universal. Aristotle finds universal in particular thing which is the essence of thing but his teacher focus on universal form. Also Aristotle suggested that the reason for anything coming about can be attributed to four different types of simultaneously active causal factors. The Material cause which describes the material out of which something is composed, the Formal cause which is the arrangement of that matter, the Efficient cause which is "the primary source", or that from which the change under consideration proceeds, and lastly Final cause from which is its purpose, or that for the sake of which a thing exists or is done, including both purposeful and instrumental actions and activities. On the other hand he also view the physical sciences which becomes the Newtonian physics. This is the foundation of engineering. As an engineering student it helps me improve my critical thinking and problem solving skills. As a whole, there are a lot of things that Ive learned in this course Introduction to philosophy. These were the least things that added to my knowledge. Philosophy was not only a course that you will finish because it is in the course curriculum but it is a course that has a lot of learning and knowledge that can help you in the future. You can also gain thoughts that you can apply in your life to become a satisfied person. This I conclude that philosophy helps not only in academic purposes but it help us to realize things and their purpose. It help us to develop our critical thinking and problem solving skills and ability as well as our communication skills and most of all our social or ethical responsibility.