SO310 Lecture 1: Intro to Philosophy
24 Oct 2018
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Greek for love and wisdom (philo & sophia) Bertrand russell: half science and half theology (the study of god) Philosophy is a study of problems which are ultimate, abstract and very general:the nature of existence, knowledge, morality, reason and human purpose. Are we making the right choices? or if we are just imagine that we are making right decisions. E. g our choices are influenced by different matters. Logic: the study of making rationally sound statements e. g all men will die. Ethics: the study of the difference between right and wrong. Metaphysics: the study of what is really real (ontology:the study of what is), and how we know that (epistemology) (by aristotle) Writing invented in egypt and mesopotamia about 4000 bce, spread throughout the mediterranean and the middle east over the next few thousands years. Several civilizations flourished in greek and collapsed, out of this chaos emerges homers, a lyric poet who writes the odyssey and the iuad (the.
