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When, where, and how did the story of Western philosophy begin? |
Western philosophy begins in Greece at about 700 B.C.E. Western philosophy began with a realization that's the religious beliefs of the time, in Greek mythology, were well-founded and did not provide adequate answers to life’s fundamental questions. It also began with the socioeconomic structure that produced a whole leisured class of people with time on their hands that they could spend meditating on philosophical issues, thus starting Western philosophy. |
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What are the differences between science and philosophy? |
Science deals with problems that can be addressed experimentally by subsuming the observable events that puzzle us under the dominion of natural laws and by showing how these laws are related causally to those events. Philosophy, on the other hand, deals with problems that require a speculative rather than an experimental approach. Such problems often require conceptual analysis (the logical scrutiny of general ideas) rather than observation or data gathering. |
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Explain conceptual analysis? |
Conceptual analysis is the logical scrutiny of general ideas (rather than observation or data gathering.) Ex. What is knowledge? What is truth? What is causality? What is value? What is explanation? |
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Distinguish between conceptual and scientific questions. |
Science is somewhat constrained by observable facts, while philosophy often looks for the “bigger picture” and appeals to some happy combination of reason and imagination. |
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Please give concrete examples - (3) of Conceptual questions. |
What is knowledge? What is truth? What is causality? What is value? What is explanation? |
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Please give concrete examples - (3) of Scientific questions. |
Can we know why on rare occasions the sun darkens at midday? Is it true that the moon’s passing between the earth and the sun causes such events? Can there be successful experiments that explain this phenomenon? |
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Irony - What is it? |
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. |
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When, where, and how did the story of Western philosophy begin? |
Western philosophy begins in Greece at about 700 B.C.E. Western philosophy began with a realization that the religious beliefs of the time, in Greek mythology, were well-founded and did not provide adequate answers to life’s fundamental questions. It also began with the socioeconomic structure that produced a whole leisured class of people with time on their hands that they could spend meditating on philosophical issues, thus starting Western philosophy. |
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When, where, and how did the story of Western philosophy begin? |
Western philosophy begins in Greece at about 700 B.C.E. Western philosophy began with a realization that the religious beliefs of the time, in Greek mythology, were well-founded and did not provide adequate answers to life’s fundamental questions. It also began with the socioeconomic structure that produced a whole leisured class of people with time on their hands that they could spend meditating on philosophical issues, thus starting Western philosophy. |
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When, where, and how did the story of Western philosophy begin? |
Western philosophy begins in Greece at about 700 B.C.E. Western philosophy began with a realization that the religious beliefs of the time, in Greek mythology, were well-founded and did not provide adequate answers to life’s fundamental questions. It also began with the socioeconomic structure that produced a whole leisured class of people with time on their hands that they could spend meditating on philosophical issues, thus starting Western philosophy. |
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What are the differences between science and philosophy? |
Science deals with problems that can be addressed experimentally by subsuming the observable events that puzzle us under the dominion of natural laws and by showing how these laws are related causally to those events. Philosophy, on the other hand, deals with problems that require a speculative rather than an experimental approach. Such problems often require conceptual analysis (the logical scrutiny of general ideas) rather than observation or data gathering. |
