crash course- What is Philospohy

Today in class we watched a crash course video that we only got half way through. Anyways, here are my notes on the video.

  • philosophy 
    • What is the nature of reality itself? 
    • Why do you do what you do? 
    • Why do you think what you think? 
    • Why do you feel what you feel? 
    • Are any of our choices actually free? 
    • Philosophia 
      • noun, the love of wisdom 
    • Philosophy 
      • noun, the academic study of anything 
    • Philosophy came to be understood more and more as a way of thinking about questions 
    • What is the world like? 
    • What is the nature of reality? 
    • Is the world just made up of matter and energy, or is something else going on? 
    • mythos 
      • storytelling 
    • philos 
      • science 
  • Plato's Academy was the first university, and it rivaled Aristotle's Lyceum
  • Koans 
    • what sound does calling with one hand make 
    • what does thinking really mean 
      • thinking about thinking when you are thinking 
    • when you take a step the earth rotates around you, so you are really in the same spot your whole life 
    • are we really living, and making our own choices 
    • are we living in a dream? 


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