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  1. Aug 27, 2013 · The term ‘philosophy’ was coined in ancient Greece by the philosopher and mathematician, Pythagoras.1 Pythagoras (c. 570-490BCE) needed a term for a certain kind of individual, one who prized truth and knowledge above all things. Accordingly, he combined the ancient Greek terms for love, philein and wisdom, sophia to produce philosophos ...

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  2. A PDF file of the syllabus for a course on philosophy taught by Andreas Teuber at Harvard University in 2020. The syllabus covers topics such as reason, mind, knowledge, ethics, justice and the meaning of life.

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  3. Mar 7, 2019 · A free online textbook that covers the basics of philosophy, from historical roots to contemporary issues. It is available in PDF and MS Word formats and has 12 chapters on various topics, such as logic, ethics, and social justice.

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  5. philosophy of science and philosophy of mind, areas where philosophy has shown dramatic recent progress. This text concludes with four chapters on ethics, broadly construed. I cover traditional theories of right action in the third of these. Students are first invited first to think about what is good for

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  6. This document introduces philosophy as a form of open-ended questioning that permits one to question any answer, even one's own. It also clarifies the nature and scope of philosophical critique, and contrasts philosophy with other disciplines.

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  7. iap.li › downloads › Hildebrand_What-is-philosophyWHAT IS PHILOSOPHY - IAP

    What is philosophy? - (Studies in phenomenological and classical realism). 1. Philosophy I. Title II. Series 100 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Von Hildebrand, Dietrich, 1889-1977 What is philosophy? / Dietrich von Hildebrand. p. cm. - (Studies in phenomenological and classical realism) Reprint, with new intro.

  8. The first were people who formed belief on the basis of custom or tradition rather than argument. The second were rhetoricians and sophists who used arguments, not to form true beliefs, but to achieve some other end. Philosophy, by contrast, is the attempt to form true beliefs about the world on the basis of reason.

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