3. 1. In the context of the elephant story, what do you
think is a holistic perspective?
2. What is a partial point of view?
4.
5. ✓ Holistic thinking refers to a perspective that considers large-scale patterns in
systems. A holistic perspective requires an individual to have an open mindset and
ability to get the general sense or impression regarding a situation.
✓ Partial thinking focuses on specific aspects of a situation. The partial view is an
important component of analytical thinking, as an individual focuses on certain
areas or aspects of a problem in order to understand it.
6.
7. The word philosophy comes from two Greek words: philos (love) and
sophia (wisdom). The ancient Greeks used this term to refer to “love of
wisdom”.
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental questions about
existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.
Philosophy is the study of humans and the world by thinking and asking
questions.
8. 1. Socrates – He emphasized the idea that the more a person knows, the greater his or her ability
to reason and make choices that will bring true happiness.
“The unexamined life is not worth living”
“Nothing will change unless you make the change yourself”
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance”
2. Plato - his teacher is Socrates
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
“You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation”
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
9. 3. Aristotle – student of Plato
- - Aristotle’s intellectual knowledge spanned every known field of science and arts, prompting him to
idealize the Aristotelian syllogistic, a belief that logical argument applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a
conclusion based on two or more propositions assumed to be true.
“Happiness is the highest good”
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit”
4. Lao-Tzu
-developed a theory that is strongly connected to Taoism
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they
become habits.”
“If you are depressed you are living in the past.”
“New begginings are often disguised as painful endings.”
10. 5. Confucius - He also established Confucianism, which is a school of belief revolving around personal ethics and
morality
-His social philosophy was based on the principle of ren—loving others—and he believed this could be
achieved using the Golden Rule: “What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.”
6. Voltaire - French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, who attacked the Catholic Church and
advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.
“Common sense is not so common.”
“If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize‘’
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”
“Don’t think money does everything, or you’re going to end up doing everything for money”
“The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what are the two most important objects of philosophy”
7. Heraclitus The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is credited with the idea that the only constant in life is change.
“One cannot step twice in the same river”
11. “He, who has a why
to live for, can bear
with almost any
how.”
- Viktor Frankl
12. 1. The beginning is the most important part of the work
2. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do
3. If you are depressed you are living in the past
4. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation
5. Nothing will change unless you make the change yourself
6. What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others
7. Happiness is the highest good
8. I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing
9. If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize
10. There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance
11. One cannot step twice in the same river
12. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
13. The unexamined life is not worth living
14. Don’t think money does everything, or you’re going to end up doing everything for
money
15. Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become
actions. Watch your actions; they become habits.
16. Common sense is not so common
Notas del editor
Knowledge is knowing that tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. Philosophy is asking if ketchup is a fruit shake.
“The unexamined life is not worth living” and “He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how”.
1.The word philosophy comes from two Greek words: philos (love) and sophia (wisdom). The ancient Greeks used this term to refer to “love of wisdom” and they soon applied it to the study or discipline that uses human reason to investigate the ultimate causes, reasons, and principles which govern all things.
3.Philosophy in simple words is a way of thinking about the world, the universe, and society. It works by asking very basic questions about the nature of human thought, the nature of the universe, and the connections between them. The ideas in philosophy are often general and abstract.
4. Philosophy is the study of humans and the world by thinking and asking questions. It is a science and an art. Philosophy tries to answer important questions by coming up with answers about real things and asking "why
Taoism-focuses on the balance of animals and humans and how they should coexist in the universe.
Taoism is also where the balancing of forces, known as the yin and yang, is derived from; this idea focuses on matching forces, such as light and dark, hot and cold, and action and inaction, portraying how the opposites work together to make sense of the world.
5.Taoism-focuses on the balance of animals and humans and how they should coexist in the universe.
Taoism is also where the balancing of forces, known as the yin and yang, is derived from; this idea focuses on matching forces, such as light and dark, hot and cold, and action and inaction, portraying how the opposites work together to make sense of the world.
7. No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.
He who has a WHY to live can bear almost any HOW (to live) It's a very colloquial way of saying. He who has a REASON to live can bear almost any MANNER of life. If you have a reason or purpose in life, you can endure almost any misery
