ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHERS UNIT 1
SOPHIA COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 FULL
STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE RESPONSES
◉ CONSTRUCTIVISM. Answer: A PRACTICE OF RATIONALITY
TAKING ACCOUNT A HISTORICAL-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF
THE FOUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. To understand "rationality" today
in terms of social construction, thus defining truth (to be rational) as
both historical and cultural.
◉ RELATIVISM. Answer: A PRACTICE OF RATIONALITY WHICH
DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY STANDARD IN ANSWERING
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION.
◉ WHO ARE PHILOSOPHERS?. Answer: THOSE WHO WERE
RECOGNIZED AS THINKERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY,
GIVEN HONOR OF BEING SO. THOSE WHO TEACH, WRITE AND
PRACTICE PHILOSOPHIZING, MAKING PHILOSOPHY AS
PROFESSION.
◉ EXAMPLES OF EARLY PHILOSOPHERS. Answer: SOCRATES,
PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
, ◉ BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY. Answer: METAPHYSICS (What is
really real vs appearance); EPISTEMOLOGY (what is knowledge vs
opinion); ETHICS (what is right vs wrong); LOGIC (what is logical vs
illogical)
◉ ONTOLOGY. Answer: from word, "ens" (being) and logos (study)
or STUDY OF BEING (Part of metaphysics)
◉ VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY BY RUSSELL. Answer: That philosophy
frees us from being practical man.
That philosophy is always critical to sciences and other
advancement today.
That philosophy must liberate us from thinking that we are private
and has personal concerns.
That philosophy is concerned primarily to life's uncertainties.
◉ PRESOCTATICS THINKERS. Answer: FIRST THINKERS DURING
6TH CENTURY BEFORE SOCRATES
◉ PRE-PHILOSOPHICAL PERIOD. Answer: PERIOD OF MYTHOS
(myths), SUPERNATURAL (reality understood in the light of faith),
SUPERSTITIOUS (interpretation totally based on supernatural
elements), FAITH (source of knowledge)
SOPHIA COMPREHENSIVE SCRIPT 2026 FULL
STUDY GUIDE COMPLETE RESPONSES
◉ CONSTRUCTIVISM. Answer: A PRACTICE OF RATIONALITY
TAKING ACCOUNT A HISTORICAL-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING OF
THE FOUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. To understand "rationality" today
in terms of social construction, thus defining truth (to be rational) as
both historical and cultural.
◉ RELATIVISM. Answer: A PRACTICE OF RATIONALITY WHICH
DOES NOT ACCEPT ANY STANDARD IN ANSWERING
FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION.
◉ WHO ARE PHILOSOPHERS?. Answer: THOSE WHO WERE
RECOGNIZED AS THINKERS IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY,
GIVEN HONOR OF BEING SO. THOSE WHO TEACH, WRITE AND
PRACTICE PHILOSOPHIZING, MAKING PHILOSOPHY AS
PROFESSION.
◉ EXAMPLES OF EARLY PHILOSOPHERS. Answer: SOCRATES,
PLATO AND ARISTOTLE
, ◉ BRANCHES OF PHILOSOPHY. Answer: METAPHYSICS (What is
really real vs appearance); EPISTEMOLOGY (what is knowledge vs
opinion); ETHICS (what is right vs wrong); LOGIC (what is logical vs
illogical)
◉ ONTOLOGY. Answer: from word, "ens" (being) and logos (study)
or STUDY OF BEING (Part of metaphysics)
◉ VALUE OF PHILOSOPHY BY RUSSELL. Answer: That philosophy
frees us from being practical man.
That philosophy is always critical to sciences and other
advancement today.
That philosophy must liberate us from thinking that we are private
and has personal concerns.
That philosophy is concerned primarily to life's uncertainties.
◉ PRESOCTATICS THINKERS. Answer: FIRST THINKERS DURING
6TH CENTURY BEFORE SOCRATES
◉ PRE-PHILOSOPHICAL PERIOD. Answer: PERIOD OF MYTHOS
(myths), SUPERNATURAL (reality understood in the light of faith),
SUPERSTITIOUS (interpretation totally based on supernatural
elements), FAITH (source of knowledge)
