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30 Cards in this Set
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What is the meaning of life? |
Harniet, one of William Shakespeare's most famous characters illustrates the philosophical mind at work. |
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Wonder |
All philosophy has its origins in wonder. Plato. |
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Wisdom |
Philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. Cicero. |
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Truth |
Philosophy is the science that considers the truth Aristole. |
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A dynamic ptocess |
The beginning of philosophy is the conflict between opinions. Epictitus. |
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Who said rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom |
Cicero |
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Who said The beginning of wisdom is to desire it |
Gabirol |
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Who said he who knows he is a fool is not a great fool |
Confucious |
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Who said let no man delay the study of philosophy and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early or too late to care for the well-being of the soul? |
Epicurus |
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Who said philosophy means liberation from the two dimensions of routines soaring above the well known and seeing it in a new perspective arousing wonder and the wish to fly |
Walter kaufman |
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Who said The feeling of wonder is the touchstone of the philosopher and all philosophy has its origins in wonder |
Plato |
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Who said for it is owning to their wonder that people both now begin and at first began to philosoohize |
Aristotle. |
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Who said philosophy is not a theory but an activity |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Who said philosophy is mans quest for the unity of knowledge: it consists in a perpetual struggle to create the concepts in which the universe can be conceived as a universe and not a multiverse? |
William. H. Halverson. |
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Who said " I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a distuber of the peace" |
Baruch Spinoza |
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Who said "The beginning of philosophy is the recognition of the conflict between opinion" |
Epictetus |
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Who said "philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language" |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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Who said "philosophy is the complete liberty of the mind, and therefore independence of all social, political, or religious prejudice?" |
Henri frederig amiel |
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Who said "philosophy asks the simple question, what is it all about?" |
Alfred north whitehead |
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Who said philosophy should be responsive to human experience and yet critical of the defective thinking it sometimes encounters |
Martha nussabaum |
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Who said philosophy is the science which considers the truth |
Aristole |
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Who said the first step toward philosophy is doubt? |
Denis diderot |
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Who said I don't know what I think until I see myself write |
Annie dillard |
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Who said the relation of word to thought and the creation of new concepts in a complex, delicate, and enigmatic process unfolding in our soul |
Leo Tolstoy |
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Who said I write to understand as much as to be understood" |
Elie Wiesel |
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Who said he who will not reason is a bigot he who cannot is a fool and he who dares not is a slave |
William Drummond |
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Most people would rather die than think and in fact they do |
Bertrand russell |
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Who said for every complex question there's a simple answer and its clever, neat and wrong? |
H. L. Mencheken. |
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Who said just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished they will fade away? |
David Perkins. |
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Steps in developing your point of view |
1-develop 2-support 3-consider other points of vies 4- arrive at a conclusion 5- consider the consequences |
