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Lecture Notes
S.Y. 2016-2017
Week 1
Caveat: This is a philosophical undertaking; everything you hear, see and experience is
a product of an academic exercise. You are hereby task to handle them scholarly.
Research and advance reading is highly recommended. Not everything dicussed inside
the classroom is detailed here.
1. Defining Philosophy
a. Nominal definition: (Greek term coined by Pythagoras)
i. Love of wisdom
1. Philein: to love
a. St. Thomas Aquinas
i. Amor Concupisentia (desiring love)
ii. Amor Benevolentia (well-wishing love)
2. Sophia: wisdom
a. To know what is right and doing what is right.
b. Real definition:
i. Search for meaning
1. Pursuit for meaning
2. Quest for meaning
3. Search is no ordinary search
a. The object is of value to the subject
b. The search consumes the person (subject)
c. It is continued without let-up until the Truth is found
c. The science of all things naturally knowable to mans unaided power in so
far as they are studied in their deepest causes and reason.
i. Science
1. Is the of all sciences
2. It is a science but not greater than any sciences
ii. All things
1. No limits to a particular subject
iii. Naturally knowable
1. The natural capacity to think
iv. Mans unaided power
1. Reason
2. Mere observation
v. Causes and reason
1. Cause
a. In what way does it contributes to the existence of a thing
i. Material- out of which something is made