PHI 1104 Lecture 1: Philosophy 1104E Lecture 1.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1104
• Professor: Jeffrey Reid

Document Summary

Self-reflection- knowing who you are- i am my experience. Wisdom is knowing one"s true self and the love of self knowledge attained from revisiting what makes us who we are. If wisdom is self knowledge, that implies that wisdom is a historical view reflection of one"s past. If the past is chosen to be forgotten, the choice to forget is something worth forgetting. We are a result of the history of though. Thoughts are derived from outside thoughts- influences from outside sources to shape the idea today. In spite of differences, there is a togetherness to be learned by revisiting and reflecting. Outside of me the otherness about us. The essence of like or objects- personality- human. Nature is the cosmos- the self, the universe and everything. How can nature be in and outside of the self. If we are determined by nature than there is no freedom.