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Doing Philosophy - Coggle Diagram
Doing Philosophy
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Philosophy - Love of wisdom. It derives from the Greek words philos meaning to love and sophos meaning wisdom.
Socrates (Athen's street corner philosopher) - The "Socratic Method" or the method of asking the things occurring about the person.
Thales of Miletus (The First Philosopher) - He proposed that the whole universe was composed of different forms of water.
Anaximanes of Miletus - He was known as "The Obscure" or "The Weeping Philosopher" because of his allegedly paradoxical philosophers. He proposed that the whole Universe was made of air.
Anaximander -
- Thales' student.
- He was known in the historical documents as the first one to write down his teaching.
- He proposed that the whole Universe was made form an unexplainable substance usually translated as "the infinite" or "the boundless".
Phytagoras of Samos - Led a rather bizarre religious sect and essentially believed that all of reality was governed by Mathematics. His teachings influenced Western Philosophy.
- Parmenides of Elea
- He was considered as the founder of the school of either Metaphysics or Ontology.
- His poem, On Nature
- Used complicated formed of reasoning to deny the concept of change.
- Argued that motion is an illusion
Zeno of Elea - Defended Parmenides' paradoxes. He was also focused on Metaphysics and Ontology. He pointed out that the concept of infinity in divisibility is a problematical - Inventor of the dialectic, as Aristotle said.
John Locke - "Knowledge then seems to me to be nothing but the perception of the connection and agreement or disagreement and repugnancy of any of our ideas"
Plato (The Philosopher would be a king) - One of Plato's most famous works is the Republic. It describes the necessary qualities a ruler must possess.
Aristotle ( Peripatetic Philosopher) - He believed in the middle of everything–nothing too good and too bad.
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Jean - Jacques Rousseau - " We are born capable of sensation and from birth are affected in diverse ways by the objects around us."
Charles - Louis de Secondat Baron de la Breda (Montesquieu) - "I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should like a fool but be wise."
Fracois - Marie Arouet (Voltaire) - "The triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it."
Laozi - "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Amartya Kumar Sen - "A novel can point to a truth without pretending to capture it exactly in some imagined numbers and formulae.
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