Humanity and Philosophy: Key Questions and Concepts

What is the Etymology of Feeling?

Etymology: Hens are a tool that allows linguistic words to refer to their origin in linguistic order to ascertain their original sense.

Phenomenology: This is a philosophical tool that allows a description of the essential features of something.

Reflection: They arrested a way of thinking about things.

What is the Ultimate End of Our Actions?

Aspiration to happiness: Happiness is an activity under the soul of virtue, manifested in a feeling of power that drives us to create.

What is the Meaning of the Allegory of the Cave?

The myth of the cave: They live cheated, they think that reality is their world because most know nothing, but the reality is out.

Is There Something That Concerns Us All? Is Philosophy a Humanizing Force?

Humans need to know their nature and find meaning in living. Philosophy is humanizing because it uses this philosophy to find the best possible way to live.

What is the Importance of Self-Knowledge and What Are Its Difficulties?

The importance of self-knowledge is the creation and welfare, and its difficulties are: fear, knowledge, Eros, and Thanatos.

What Are the Differences Between Us and Other Animals?

• Human: We exist in time: past, present, and future. We need to find a meaning to life; we live in a maladjustment to the world; we are driven by desires; we are imperfect; we move into an area of freedom; there is a distance between us and our media, which leads to reflection.
• Animals: Their existence is confident; this is simply living, perfectly living in an environment adapted to the relationship with reality as a stimulus-response; they are guided by instinct; they are perfect beings; they need to move; the world ends for them just where their needs end; they feel confident in their experience and perception.

How Do Animals Relate to Time? And How Do We Relate to Time?

Animals live underwater entirely in this fact of necessities that you must meet to continue living. On the other hand, we live uncomfortably in the present, we do not feel quite right, and there we are often attracted to a past (longing) or future (hope, desire...)

Is What Characterizes Us a Permanent Maladjustment?

We say that because we are continually making belts and rebuilding our individual and collective existence. The indeterminacy that opens us to multiple personalities without closing any door is what we call freedom. But animals are adapted so that they do not need to improvise, which implies not having to use intelligence.

What is the Difference Between Us and Animals in How We Face Reality?

Animals face reality with a practical attitude: their world ends where their needs change. Human beings can not see in reality only a means of subsistence or a source of danger, but a world filled with mystery and questions.

How Does Mythological Explanation Differ from Rational Thinking?

Mythology is based on supernatural explanations where imaginary beings are included. In contrast, rational thinking is based on explanations of natural phenomena that can be observed.

What Are Myths?

Myths are wonderful stories about the origins of the world, of humans, or of a lesser society. Its function is threefold: ideological, scientific, and religious.

What Are the Main Characteristics of Mythical Explanations?

Mythical explanations have the following features:

• They are based on natural explanations that include imaginary beings.
• They follow an anthropomorphic model, personifying the natural and divine.
• Despite introducing order into the world, this remains indispensable.
• They are based on simple imagination.
• They articulate stories that make use of metaphors, images, and symbols.
• They are a finalist explanation where natural phenomena act according to intent.
• They are dogmatic and cannot be compared.

What Does the Expression "The Step from Myth to Logos" Mean?

The step from myth to logos was a step from imagination to the use of systematized reason, with explanations increasingly less imaginative and more abstract.

What Are the Differences Between Religion and Philosophy? What Features Do They Share?

Philosophy presents a clearly defined environment, unlike religion and science. The feature that philosophy and religion share is the aspiration of all: to give an answer to all the serious questions humans are capable of raising.

Why Do We Say That Philosophy is First of All Doubt? What Does It Have to Do with Skepticism?

We hesitate when asked, and philosophy has to do with the questions. Skepticism is a doctrine that claims the impossibility of knowledge and denies the human capacity to attain truth.

When and How Did Philosophy Emancipate from Science?

About 400 years ago, science began to use the experimental method, a path that would begin its gradual emancipation from philosophy.

What is Meant by the Scientific Revolution? When and How Did It Occur?

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a phenomenon known as the scientific revolution helped to radically change the image of the world and of the human being.

What is the Difference Between the Inductive, Deductive, and Hypothetico-Deductive Methods?

Induction: This is a generalization from known facts, but we can never achieve completely safe and indubitable knowledge.

Deduction: This is useful in mathematics and logic, which is a way of chaining proposals with others, serving the intention of bringing new ideas to explain empirical facts, the real world.

Hypothetico-deductive method: This introduces a new way of explanation or interim science hypothesis. If the hypothesis resists these tests, it acquires the force of scientific law.

What Are the Fundamental Characteristics of Scientific Knowledge?

Rational, systematic, exact, verifiable.

Who Finds Meaning in Saying That Science is Useful Knowledge?

Scientific laws are true or only probable; the indisputable fact is that they contribute to significantly improving living conditions.

What Are the Main Differences Between Philosophy and Science? What is the Difference Between Thinking and Knowing?

Science is glued knowledge, while philosophy is thought. The first is a domain where there is only very limited room for formal science and empirical studies; the second is a much broader area that encompasses realities beyond the domain of science. Science is concerned only with thinking, and philosophy with knowing. Philosophy rises to show us an overview of reality. The change in science within these domains studies them thoroughly with an accurate and detailed description.