1. The document describes an activity where students cut out parts of a picture, write stories about the cut parts, and try to match their stories to the real picture.
2. It then discusses how no individual or group has a complete understanding of truth, but instead have partial views, and discusses the nature of philosophy as an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed method like science.
3. Finally, it contrasts the Western approach to truth exemplified by Descartes that relies on the mind, versus the oriental approach that emphasizes continual engagement with others to examine one's understanding.
1. The document describes an activity where students cut out parts of a picture, write stories about the cut parts, and try to match their stories to the real picture.
2. It then discusses how no individual or group has a complete understanding of truth, but instead have partial views, and discusses the nature of philosophy as an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed method like science.
3. Finally, it contrasts the Western approach to truth exemplified by Descartes that relies on the mind, versus the oriental approach that emphasizes continual engagement with others to examine one's understanding.
1. The document describes an activity where students cut out parts of a picture, write stories about the cut parts, and try to match their stories to the real picture.
2. It then discusses how no individual or group has a complete understanding of truth, but instead have partial views, and discusses the nature of philosophy as an ongoing conversation rather than a fixed method like science.
3. Finally, it contrasts the Western approach to truth exemplified by Descartes that relies on the mind, versus the oriental approach that emphasizes continual engagement with others to examine one's understanding.
paper. under it, write a story about the cut part. Display the finished product. Questions A.Which group shared the story that was close enough to the picture? Which story farthest from the real picture? Before you saw the real picture, do you think it was possible for the class to answer questions a and b? Imagine the whole magazine picture representing the TRUTH
The TEACHER represent a supreme
being who has access to the bigger part of the truth
GROUPS representing all of us –
who have small knowledge about the TRUTH. Questions
1. Do you think this is a more or
less accurate representation of our human condition?
2. What does this say about a
human being’s quest for truth. - In reality, no one has complete access to the bigger truth.
- being human essentially means
that our views will always be partial.
- no one has a say on what
method” is right in ascertaining what is true. The historyof philosophy is like a long conversation of arguments and opinion philosophers have contributed to the history of thought through their own methods of testing opinions and examining claims to truth. GABRIEL MARCEL
Clarifies that philosophy is not
like the sciences that have a clear method in arriving at truths.
recall how you used the method
in your experimentation and analysis. In Science
Regardless of what you were
trying to find out in your research whether it was a photosynthesis or the chemical composition of a compound, you followed the same steps prescribed by the scientific method. regardless of who was conducting the experiment, whether it was your group leader or your self for as long as you followed the steps as carefully as possible,you all arrive at the same scientific results Therefore the method of the sciences is a fixed process that can be repeated by anyone and still bring the same results. Philosophy is different when you set out to answer questions about the meaning of life, freedom or love you are likely to find in your search will be different from what your seat mate or friend will discover in his own search. this is because the journey of philosophizing is a very personal journey. As we have learned in the first chapter that whatever glimpse of the truth we get will always be partial. That is why it is important that we constantly engage others to help us examine these truths we hold Two different approaches to the search and understanding of truth
1. From the representative of
Western modern thinking.
2. From the characteristic
approach of oriental thought. Rene Descartes and Western modern Thinking.
A French philosopher, says that
only the mind, not the body can arrive at clear and distinct ideas which cannot be doubted