UNDS - CHP 1 (part 1)

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It is the study of acquiring knowledge through rational thinking and inquiries that involves in answering questions regarding the nature and existence of man and the world we live in.

He is the first martyr educator and his philosophy underlies in the importance of the notion “knowing oneself”

Art of questioning

He believed in the division of a person’s body and soul which forms the person as a whole aside from the material things and that could be observed and associated with a person

Part of the person that is driven by desire and need to satisfy oneself. This satisfaction both involves physical needs and pleasures and desires.

Part of the soul can be attributed to the couragous part of a person, one who wants to do something or to right the wrongs that they observe.

Part of the soul could be said is the driver of our lives, this is the part that thinks and plan for the future “the conscious mind” it decides what to do, when to do it and the possible results one could have depending on their actions.

He believes that our notion of ourselves and our idea of existence comes from a higher form of sense in which bodily senses may not perceive or understand, and the more one doubts and question his life means that, that person is actually living.

A French Philosopher known to be the father of modern philosophy because of his radical use of systematic and early scientific method to aid his ideas and assumptions.