• Introduction to the Philosophy of the Human Person

• Objectives:
• PILOSOPO
• HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CALLED AS ONE ?
• WHAT MAKES A PILOSOPO A PILOSOPO
• WHAT MAKES AN ANSWER/REACTION A PILOSOPONG SAGOT

• The ability to inquire and ask questions is inherent among human beings
• The act of asking is a person’s way of making sense of all things around him to make
him/her understand
• This asking of basic questions created a discipline
• PHILOSOPHY

• PHILOSOPHY
• Comes from two Greek words
• Philos
• Means love
• Sophia
• Wisdom
• The Love of Wisdom

• Three Concepts of Philosophy

• 1. Philosophy of Life
• The fundamental values of some basic assumptions about things, persons, institutions
which influence one’s beliefs, decisions and actions

• Having Philosophy means

• General guideline in life for how to live life
• A way of seeing and making sense of the world and our experiences
• Of doing a specific activity or an aspect in life
• Example Philosophy of a teacher towards the learner
• Example:
• “it’s not just doing the bare minimum, its doing the best you can”

• 2. Activity of Reflecting on and Analyzing one’s beliefs or reasons for actions or

decisions
• What have I done?
• Did I do something right?
• What will be consequences of my decisions/actions?

• 3. A reconstructed belief or value system which shows a universal and

comprehensive character
• Institution’s Vision-Mission Statements
• Why it exists
• Purpose in terms of reasons for establishment
• How it wants to achieve its purpose
• Method
• What it is built
• End goals

• Apple’s Vision Statement

• “We believe that we are on the face of the earth to make great products and that’s not
changing. We are constantly focusing on innovating. We believe in the simple not the
complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind
the products that we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a
significant contribution. We believe in saying no to thousands of projects, so that we
can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us. We believe
 in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate
in a way that others cannot. And frankly, we don’t settle for anything less than
excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self- honesty to admit when
we’re wrong and the courage to change. And I think regardless of who is in what job
those values are so embedded in this company that Apple will do extremely well.”

• Apple’s Mission Statement

• Apple’s Mission Statement
• “Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife,
iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods
and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary
iPhone and App store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing
devices with iPad.”

• On HRSP Vision-Mission
• 1. Why it exists
• Purpose in terms of reasons for establishment
• 2. How it wants to achieve its purpose
• Method
• 3. What it is built
• End goals
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• Does it follow that having philosophies makes a person philosophical?
• The difference of having Philosophies and being Philosophical

• On Being Philosophical
• Not just
• Having a philosophy of life
• Having a sense of purpose
• Having a code
• Having a purpose
• Being a Pilosofo Tasio
• It is
• Way of THINKING
• Of a certain body of Knowledge
• Subject matter
• Method
• The practitioners
• Traditions
• Schools
• Purposes
• Socrates (470-399 B.C.E)
• Why is Socrates wisest among Athenians

• Read The Apology of Socrate 20c-24e

• https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/apology/section3/page/2/

• Being philosophical means

• 1. There are some things
• That we do not know
• That we have not thought of
• We have never thought of thinking
2. Realizing that there are other ways of seeing and thinking about things
• 3. Being able to
• Think carefully with the examination of
• What we think
• Why we think in a certain way
 • Why we do certain things
• 4. It is a matter of asking all sorts of questions that pertains to
• Causes and principles
• Meaningful
• True
• Viable

• Philosophical questions are

• BIG QUESTIONS
• DEEP QUESTIONS
• Philosophical Questions
• Do not have one, standard answer
• Because Philosophy has many ways of
• Understanding
• Answers
• Framework questions or Foundational questions
• This is the kind of question that Philosophy asks
•
• Difference between scientific and philosophical questions
• Scientific question
• What are the causes of earthquakes?
• Seeks to understand seeks to understand the physical event called the
earthquake
• Philosophical question
• What is the nature of causation?
• seeks to understand the nature of the of the concept of causation
• Thomas Nagel
• A historian
• What happened sometime in the past?
• A philosopher
• What is time?
• A mathematician
• What is the relations among numbers
• A philosopher
• What is number?
• Physicist
• What atoms are made of?
• What explains gravity?
• A philosopher
• How can we know there is anything outside of our minds?
• A philosopher
• What makes a word mean anything?
• Anyone,
• Whether its wrong to sneak into a movie without paying?
• A philosopher
• What makes an action right or wrong?
• St Thomas Aquinas as a philosopher asked
• What is God
• Philosophy is sometimes called
• Queen of Sciences
• Philosophy is the starting point of the sciences
• Makes sense out of questions with no definite answers
• When certain answers are accepted as definite
• Field of science
• I -Faith - Thales and his question on the principle which is
the first reason for all succession in the world of
nature
• II -Hope -Anaximander and His Theory of the Universe
• III -Love -Leucippus and Democritus , Atomists
• IV -Prudence -The Socratic Method of Socrates
• V -Justice -Euthyphro and the question of the virtue of Piety
• Objectives:

• The fields of sciences started with natural philosophy

• As the years went on developed a more speculative cosmological inquiry
• Example:
• More definite terms, principles and patterns of behavior and mind gave way to
the science of psychology
• Separated from philosophizing about man and his rationality

• When does a field of inquiry become a science?

• When answers becomes more
• Certain
• Definite
• Then the field of inquiry no longer is a part of philosophy
• Pre-modernity (up until 19th Century)
• Natural sciences was called natural philosophy
• Scientists were doing natural philosophy
• Modern Era
• Has definite areas
• Has professional titles
• Has more define emprical style of investigation
• Being Philosophical
• Continuiing quest to refine and reevaluate assumptions
• In the process of asking is the realization that questions lead to
• Deeper
• Bigger
• More fundamental things and views of thinking
• Activity of Philosophy
• Thinking about thinking
• Many ways of thinking that involves
• Possibilities
• Meaning
• Other ways of thinking about things

• Skills required in Philosophy

• THE SKILL OF CONSIDERING MANY POINTS OF VIEW
• May be
• Similar
• Contrary
• Different from one another
• Thus, different Philosophies of
• Religion
• Games
• Art
• Mathematics
• Environment
• History of knowledge
• Social sciences
• Sciences
• Philosophizing involves our very selves and our point of view
• Thus it can be that as we philosophize we are attempting to understand
• Ourselves personally
• And ourselves as a society
• Philosophizing is a human activity because man is asking questions about
• His own self
• His own situations
• Small scope – Family
• Large scope – country/nation
• His way of viewing things
• Ethical Question:
• Would you break the law to saved a love one?
• In answering consider
• A. your own self
• B. your own situation
• C. your way of viewing things