PHIL 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sophia (Wisdom)

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Shyam Ranganathan

Document Summary

Philosophy: what is it: philosophy overlaps with many areas of inquiry, but it has a unique concern. Texts can be found the world over that exemplify philosophy as we understand it today. Philosophy is not the creation of the west, nor first done in the. West: however, the word philosophy comes from the ancient greek: it means love (philo) of wisdom (sophia). Shyam ranganathan, introduction to philosophy, phil 1000, york university: what we call philosophy today is not what the ancient greeks understood under this term, defining event in the evolution of the concept of. Philosophy : when natural science was understood as an autonomous pursuit, separate from philosophy: other important events in the evolution of the concept of philosophy: separation of the social sciences off from philosophy. Traditional topics in philosophy: metaphysics reality, epistemology knowledge, logic reason, ethics value as it pertains to the socially relevant;