INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY 

Discuss the importance of philosophy/what philosophy is about. Include in your discussion:

(1) 3 intellectual skills that doing philosophy develops

(2) the importance of examining assumptions and worldviews

(3) Socrates’ maxim: “The unexamined life is not worth living”

(4) and what “philosophy” means.

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Philosophy is the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake and as a study originates from Greece in 500BC. Philosophy is concerned is categorized into four main areas which include logic, metaphysics, epistemology and Value theory. Value theory constitutes ethics and aesthetic which definer the questions of how we should live and if beauty exists. Logics are the reasoning to define the questions asked in philosophy by establishing arguments…

 

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