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Love of Wisdom |
Philosophy |
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Love |
Strong desire for a particular object |
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Wisdom |
Correct application of knowledge |
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Philosophy |
studies beings in their ultimate cases, reasons, principles
refers to all BEINGS
critical and logical in manner |
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Metaphysics, Epistemology,Logic, Ethics |
Four Major Branches of Philosophy |
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General and Special Metaphysics |
2 divisions/types of Metaphysics |
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Ontology Cosmology Psychology Ethics |
4 parts of Special Metaphysics |
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Metaphysics |
study of things beyond the physical concepts
first philosophy
foundation of philosophy |
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Meta |
derived from greek word which means beyond or after |
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Physica |
physical/nature |
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Heraclitus |
Logos is reason or underlying principle of all that is |
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Ontology |
studies beings in their ultimate causes, reasons, and principles through the aid of reason |
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Cosmology |
studies the world's origin, dynamics, characteristics, as well as laws |
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kosmos |
world |
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psyche |
Soul/mind |
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Psychology |
studies the nature and dynamics of the human person as a whole
person's mind functions and the way she behaves |
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Theos |
God |
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Theology |
justification of tje goodness of God in the face of the existence of Evil |
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Theodicee |
1710 work of Gott Fried Wihelm Leibniz |
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Episteme |
Knowledge |
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Epistemology |
study of the nature and scope of knowledge and justified belief
truth, knowledge, belief |
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logos |
science of correct thinking
study or knowledge |
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Logic |
study of principles and criteria of a valid argument
distinguish good reasoning from bad reasoning |
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Wonder |
Origin of Philosophy
according to Plato |
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Miletus |
Origin of Philosophy (Western Philosophy) |
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Thales |
First Philosopher
First to put his philosophy in writing |
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Ethics |
cultural custom or habit
characteristic way of acting
practical science of the morality of human conduct
studies rightness and wrongness of a human action
concerned with questions of how human persons ought to act |
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Human Conduct |
refers only to such human activity as is deliberate and free |
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Human Act |
a deliberate and free act
an act performed with advertence and motive
an act determined by the free will |
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Acts of Man |
acts performed by human beings without advertence, or without exercise of free choice |
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Morality |
refers to the agreement or disagreement of human activity with the dictates of reason |
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Morality |
tells us what we ought to do and exhorts us to follow the right way |
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Metaethics, Nomative Ethics, Applied Ethics |
Types of Ethics |
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Acts of Man |
Man's animal act of sensation and apetition done w/o advertence and exercise of free choice |
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Elicited Acts |
find their adequate cause in the will (deliberate will) |
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Commanded Acts |
Do not find their adequate cause in the will Perfected by action of mental pr bodily powers under orders from the will |
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Wish |
Simple love of anything Tendency of the will towards a thing, wether realizable or not |
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Intention |
Purposive tendency of the will towards a thing regarded as realizable |
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Consent |
acceptance by the will of the means necessary to carry out intention |
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Election |
selection by the will of the precise means to be employed in carrying out an intention |
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Use |
The employment by the will of bodily or mental powers or both to carry out its intention by the means selected |
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Fruition |
enjoyment of a thing willed and done will's act of satisfaction in intention fulfilled |
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Internal |
acts done by internal mental powers under command of the will |
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External |
Acts affected by bodily powers under command of the will |
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Mixed |
acts that invove the employment of bodily and mental powers |
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Good |
when human acts are in harmony with the dictates of right reason |
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Evil |
when human acts are in opposition with the dictates of right reason |
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Indifferent |
they stand in no positive relation to the dictates of reason |
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Constituents of the human act |
refer to the essential elements or qualities for an act to be human |
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Knowledge, Freedom, Voluntariness |
Types of Constituents of the Human Acts |
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Knowledge |
a human act proceeds form the deliberate will |
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Deliberation |
Advertence or knowledge in intellect of what one is about and what this means |
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Freedom |
an act determined by the will and by nothing else act that is under control of the will free act |
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Voluntariness |
will act both knowledge and freedom in the agent or doer |
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Perfect |
when the agent fully knows and fully intends the act |
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Imperfect |
there is some defeat in the agent's knowledge, intention or both. |
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Simple |
present in human act done, whether tje agent likes or dislikes doing it |
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Conditional |
present in agent's wish to do something other than that which he is actually doing, but doing with dislike |
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Direct |
present in a human act willed in itself |
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Indirect |
present in human act which is the forseen result of another act directly willed |
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Positive |
present in a human act of doing, performing |
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Negative |
present in a human act of omitting, refraining form doing |
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Actual |
presennt in human act willed here and now |
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Virtual |
present in a human act done as a result of a formerly elicited actual intention even if that intention be here and now |
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Habitual |
present in a human act done in harmony |
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Interpretative |
there is judgment of prudence and common sense |
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Indirect Voluntariness |
present in that human act which is an effect forseen of another act directly willed |
