PILOSOPHY OF MAN: ASSESSMENT

I. Philosophical Enterprise

1. Explain the meaning and context of the following text:

a. Philosophical Inquiry

Philosophical inquiry involves attempting to answer the most fundamental questions about a
topic. (The answer to question A is more fundamental than the answer to question B if and only
if the answer to B takes for granted or presupposes the answer to A.) For example, a scientist
might make a statement that one type of event causes another type of event. Such statements
take for granted the concept of cause. Someone interested in philosophical inquiry about
science would ask, "What is a cause?"

b. Philosophy

The study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when
considered as an academic discipline.

c. Humanities

the study of how people process and document the human experience.

d. Matrix and Scope

Matrix is that which gives form while Scope is obviously pointing to the coverage.

e. Abstraction and Insight

Abstraction is the process of forming a concept by identifying common features among a group
of individuals, or by ignoring unique aspects of these individuals. The notion of abstraction is
important to understanding some philosophical controversies surrounding empiricism and the
problem of universals.Insight is delving deep with a philosophical reasoning and does with your
views and less of facts or rather how you use them to explain a subject.

f. Phenomology

Is a broad discipline and method of inquiry in philosophy, developed largely by the German
philosophers Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, which is based on the premise
that reality consists of objects and events ("phenomena") as they are perceived or understood
in the human consciousness, and not of anything independent of human consciousness.
Phenomenology is the study of experience and how we experience. The term "phenomenology"
is derived from the Greek "phainomenon", meaning "appearance". Hence it is the study
of appearances as opposed to reality, and as such has it roots back in Plato's Allegory of the
 Cave and his theory of Platonic Idealism (or Platonic Realism), or arguably even further back
in Hindu and Buddhist philosophy.

g. Logic

(from the Greek "logos", which has a variety of meanings including word, thought, idea,
argument, account, reason or principle) is the study of reasoning, or the study of the principles
and criteria of valid inference and demonstration. It attempts to distinguish good reasoning
from bad reasoning.

h. Critical Thinking

It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical
thinking skills can understand the logical connections between ideas, Identify, construct and
evaluate arguments and detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning.

i. Metapragmatics

Pragmatic could be understood as that which practical (praxis), and beyond (meta). Thus the
term metapragmatics means beyond the practical.

2. Cut out a story or joke from newspapers or magazines and explain its insight by rlating it to
personal experience.

3. Discuss the inevitability of human experience in philosophical inquiry.