GRADE 12
WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY
- Philosophy comes from the Greek word Philein - “love” or “friendship” and Sophia - “wisdom”
- Literally, Philosophy means “Love of wisdom”.
- Love always seeks unity with the object
- Wisdom means the good exercise or application of knowledge
- To philosophize, therefore, is to be in a quest, or to have the desire towards living the TRUTH
- We need to study philosophy that we may know the TRUTH
QUESTIONS IN PHILOSOPHY
- Ancient - where am I?
- Medieval Philosophy — what am I / Why I am here?
- Modern Philosophy — who am I
- Contemporary Philosophy — am I
PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS
Thales of Miletus
1. Water is the material cause of all things
2. Earth floats upon water
3. The magnet is a living thing
4. All things are full of gods.
Anaximander
“The Boundless”- Apeilon
It was “HIM” not water nor any element who created everything. This “HIM” is
infinite,eternal and ageless… The source of all the worlds. He talked about the evolution of
animals and of the origin of man.
Pythagoras
1. He Discovered the Pythagorean Theorem.
2. He held curious view that all things were numbers and extrapolated from Euclidean
geometry that would later become “The Music of the Spheres.”
3. His views later became muddled with mysticism leading to Pythgorean cults
