Reading/Discussion Questions Assignment 1
1. Students improve in the way they think. They would be a better person, be happy, and find the correct truth about what happen in life. That is what Philosophy do to us, it guides you to develop your brain better. Also the word Philosophy is more often recognized as “the love of wisdom.”
2. The Socratic Method of teaching is one of the oldest and powerful methods. This method is very useful because it develops critical thinking and involves giving students questions but not answers. Asking questions such: What is real? How we acquire knowledge? Also involves inquiry, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of thoughts and ideas.
3. Critical Thinking would give you facts and reasons that can be used to …show more content…
Anaximander stated that the Primary Substance is in fact boundless or infinite. He doubted whether any fundamental or primary substance would exists in an observable pure form. In a sense he was correct, as we today known that we do not observe a primary substance anywhere in the world.
9. Pythagoras believed the truth about reality must be numbers, which never lie. Like for example 2+2=4 that answer always would be 4. He would always looks for something easy, nothing complicated.
10. The Aristotle’s four causes would be “What is it? What is it made of? How was it made or who made it? What is it yours?” This four causes are the basis of today’s scientific method. Aristotle agree that truth was the only meaning of reality, and that truth must be unchanging, eternal, and perfect.
11. Rationalism is a method of acquiring knowledge by means of logic and reason it claims that knowledge is arrived at by means of our minds. Empiricism is a method of acquiring knowledge by means of observation, inquiry, and experience.
12. A posterior knowledge is acquired after some experience. For example: I know that the book will fall down after I release it. I know that the sun sets in the west. A prior is arrived at without experience and is necessary and certain. For example: a cat is a feline. If you understand that a cat is necessarily a
1. Students improve in the way they think. They would be a better person, be happy, and find the correct truth about what happen in life. That is what Philosophy do to us, it guides you to develop your brain better. Also the word Philosophy is more often recognized as “the love of wisdom.”
2. The Socratic Method of teaching is one of the oldest and powerful methods. This method is very useful because it develops critical thinking and involves giving students questions but not answers. Asking questions such: What is real? How we acquire knowledge? Also involves inquiry, analysis, evaluation, and synthesis of thoughts and ideas.
3. Critical Thinking would give you facts and reasons that can be used to …show more content…
Anaximander stated that the Primary Substance is in fact boundless or infinite. He doubted whether any fundamental or primary substance would exists in an observable pure form. In a sense he was correct, as we today known that we do not observe a primary substance anywhere in the world.
9. Pythagoras believed the truth about reality must be numbers, which never lie. Like for example 2+2=4 that answer always would be 4. He would always looks for something easy, nothing complicated.
10. The Aristotle’s four causes would be “What is it? What is it made of? How was it made or who made it? What is it yours?” This four causes are the basis of today’s scientific method. Aristotle agree that truth was the only meaning of reality, and that truth must be unchanging, eternal, and perfect.
11. Rationalism is a method of acquiring knowledge by means of logic and reason it claims that knowledge is arrived at by means of our minds. Empiricism is a method of acquiring knowledge by means of observation, inquiry, and experience.
12. A posterior knowledge is acquired after some experience. For example: I know that the book will fall down after I release it. I know that the sun sets in the west. A prior is arrived at without experience and is necessary and certain. For example: a cat is a feline. If you understand that a cat is necessarily a