Campus Handout

Lesson 5: Importance of Learning Philosophy - What is the necessity of studying philosophy - Maintenance and Actualizing needs - self-fulfillment, creativity, self-expression - Creative and Critical Thinking

Lesson 4: Axiology and Logic What is Axiology ? - value, worth - What is a value? Three areas of Axiology - Ethics Meta-ethics, Normative ethics, and Applied ethics Consequentialism or Teleological Ethics, Deontological Ethics, and Virtue Ethics - Aesthetics - Social/Political Philosophy What is Logic ? - What is an argument - valid or invalid, sound argument? - fallacy

Lesson 3: Metaphysics and Epistemology - What is Metaphysics ? - Metaphysical questions - Cosmological Aspect - Theological Aspect - Anthropological Aspect - Ontological Aspect - What is Epistemology ? - theory of knowledge - questions/issues with which Epistemology deals - Skepticism & Agnosticism Sources of human knowledge - empiricism - rationalism - intuition - revelation - authority

Lesson 2: Basic Features of Philosophy - "having" philosophy - "Doing" philosophy - critical evaluation - worldview - logical analysis of language - philosophical questions

Lesson 1: Meaning and Nature of Philosophy - etymologically meaning - Philosophy - constructive and critical side side - understanding of wisdom - Philosophize, Socrates