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Teacher of Plato

_____ Method is the art of asking a question that is committed to the truth. It aims for moral improvement, to make us wise and virtuous persons (starts with s)

When one uses the socratic method, he/she does not seek to harm or destroy a person; instead, the goal is to correct one's opinions and lead him/her to the truth.

Developed by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel & Karl Marx.

refers to a claim. It may be a hypothesis, speculation, declaration, belief, conclusion, or a certain reality.

refers to a thesis that negates or opposes the given thesis.

Is the result of the conflict of the thesis and antithesis.

Is not concerned about winning or losing but about seeking new ideas that arise from a conflict.

Helps a person to examine his/her own experience of something.

One's experience is never taken for granted in the search for truth.

One's experience is never taken for granted in the search for truth.

Phenomenology is "the science of the essence of consciousness“

Phenomenon is that which appears to the consciousness of the mind

Comes from the two Greek words: phainomenon, which means appearance, and logos, which means study or reason. (starts with P ---- logy)

PURE PHENOMENOLOGY = emphasizes the person's lived experience to get to the true meaning of reality.

The term hermeneutics is usually associated with the Greek god, _____, who was the messenger between gods and humans.

derived from hermêneuein or hermêneusai and hermêneia, which means interpreting or interpretation.

€� The aim of hermeneutics is "to capture the truth of the text."

The search for truth is like a vocation – a calling

The methods of philosophizing settles with mere opinions and facts, but they always love to transcend and attain the truth.

Friedrich Schleiermacher system is called romanticist hermeneutics.

Human being is the source of many questions about the existence of the world and everything that exists in it.

Human beings discover all the answers of all his/her own questions

Believes that because human being is endowed with reason, he/she wonders and questions everything including his/her existence.

He claims that disharmony among persons occur when one does not recognize the light of reason of the other person.

Claims that “Human person has the responsibility of respecting other people in the same way he/she respect himself/herself.”

We CONSTRUCT the Self

It is the self that is constructing and organizing principles of experiences which creates a world that is familiar, predictable and significantly be called as mine.

I myself is the one who’s discovering the world for I am the driver of my life. Nobody will do it for me for it transcends the experience in my mind as well as the senses of mine.

Man is a thinking man that has an entity to doubt, understand, analyze, question, and the most important thing is to reason out that can exist independently in the physical body.

Cogito ergo sum - “I THINK THERFORE I AM"

I have the free will to reason out what I wanted to say.

The Self is Consciousness

For him our human mind is a TABULA RASA or also known as a mind self at birth is a blank state.

Conscious awareness and memory of previous experiences are the keys in understanding the self.