PHIL 1100 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tao Te Ching, Bourgeoisie, Meletus
23 Aug 2013
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Philosophy: concerned with universal and general theories. Universals: qualities, characteristics, de ning traits, categories, not speci c items at some place but categories or items / events. Generality: ranging over a wide area, not of narrow signi cance. Purpose of philosophy: question, debate, apply, discover theories of a universal and general nature on a variety of topics. Texts can be found all over the world. Philosophy comes from greek meaning love (philo) of wisdom (sophia) De ning event in philosophy evolution:natural science understood as an autonomous purist, separate from philosophy (display distinction) Other important event is separation from social science from philosophy. Ethics: values that pertain to social relevancy ( laws of persons) ** question of the meaning of life all pertain to the above^^ If this claim^ is true then it itself is subjective and cannot be true (more objective answers as they deal with generalizations. Everything in philosophy is relatively true, no absolute truths.
