PHL201H1 Lecture : Intro to Phliosophy.docx
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September 12, 2013: what is philosophy, basic fundamental questions & answers (ex. Questions that have to do with principles. If there aren"t experts or experts disagree, you try to reason your way out: what make something more philosophical is reasoning. Reasoning is not unique to philosophy, it is applied to other practices such as physics, mathematics and other sciences. But all those practices are part of philosophy, it all started from philosophy. Philosophy is the central sun: we use logic and reasoning on things in which we don"t know how to make progress. (ex. Finding a cure): philosophy covers the difficult if not insoluble matters remain a part of philosophy, most of the other disciplines started out as bits and pieces of philosophy. Two consequences: other kinds of intellectual endeavor can be called back to philosophy as needs be, the difficult if not insoluble matters remain a part of philosophy.
