 Why does man have to

philosophize?
 Bakit kinakailangang
mamilosopiya ng tao?
 Plato and Aristotle claimed that
philosophy begins in wonder
 Wonder is the feeling of a
philosopher; pholosophy begins
in wonder because Iris, the
messenger of heavenly wisdom, is
the child of Thaumas or wonder
 Mystery of human existence
 Human life is a great paradox,
incomprehensible contradiction
and dreadful tragedy
 For existentialist human life is an
unasked-for existence; a great
paradox
 Human existence is
incomprehensible contradiction
because the moment he is born,
he already begin to die. Life is a
journey towards death
 Human existence is a great
tragedy because man is born to
suffer and die
 Paradox of Life: we don’t know
when, why, where and how we are
going to die?
 Why does man still have to be
born if only to suffer and finally to
die?
 Filipinos also awed by the mystery
of life; hence, they philosophize
 They would like to know and
understand the meaning of
human existence
 Inevitable as man is always
bewildered by the paradox of
human life
 To philosophize means to search
for meaning
 Philosophy is man’s intellectual
search for the meaning of human
existence
 Freedom
 Intellectual Openness
 Critical Thinking
 Rationality
 Endless search of truth and
meaning
 Free Philosophical inquiry is a way
an individual can freed himself
from belief and customs that have
long imprisoned him
 You shall know the truth and the
truth shall set you free. Many
people know the truth but do not
live for the truth. They remain
slaves to evil
 Philosophy is an open, intellectual
process of unfolding new
knowledge about human
experience
 Philosophical quest is interacting
philosophy of the past, present
and future. It is sharing
experience of other people from
other parts of the world
 Experience and situation are
interconnected in the sense that
your experiences derives from
your situation
 We must not judge, condemn,
punish or denounce an individual
just because he espouses a
different view or belief in life
 Philosophical analysis is the
instrument of reason that’s why it
is guided by reason and will end
up in reason
 To understand man we need to
know his sociocultural interaction,
childhood, family, schooling and
other factors
 Human life is philosophy and
philosophy is life because human
life is a struggle for survival and
meaningful existence
 Philosophy is a ceaseless search
for ultimate meaning of life