Practice Philosphy Period 1

What are Confucius main teachings?

• Be obedient to honourable people

• Treat your parents with reverence

• 5 virtues

• Be humble and learn from others

• A pot is more useful when it is empty.

What were the main teachings of Lao-Tzu?

• Connect with deeper self

• Your heart will be weigthed against a feather when you die

• Connect with nature

• Emptiness is more useful

Buddah taught what?

• Avoid pleasures in order to reach spiritual goal

• Reality is what we experience with our senses

• Suffering unifies everything

What was Confucius Golden Rule?

• Finding purpose in life is meaningless, you create your own purpose.

• Create art and let it affect other people.

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  Do not do unto other what you do not what done to yourself.

  
  

Reason

• Uses logic and human emotions and passions to reach to conclusions.

• Draws conclusions from only logical thinkong.

What happens in the play Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles?

• Oedipus discovers he has killed his father and married his mother, fulfilling a tragic prophecy.

• Oedipus solves a riddle and saves the city from a plague.
• Oedipus is banished for his arrogance and never returns.
• Oedipus becomes king and lives happily ever after.

What could we learn from the play Oedipus Rex?

• We learn that knowledge is always beneficial.
• We learn about the importance of family loyalty.
• We learn about the inevitability of fate and the tragic consequences of trying to defy it.
• We learn that happiness is the ultimate goal in life.

Look at the picture, if you were to analise the machinery at the center with the cells, universe, etc. What philosophical concept would you select to describe it? Think about why.

• Justice

• Values

• Science

• Beauty

Look at the picture, if you were to analise the right side of the paintig with Marx, Lenin and others . What philosophical concept would you select to describe it? Think about why.

• Justice

• Values

• Science

• Beauty

To what philosophical concept could this image be linked? Think about why.

• Justice

• Mimesis

• Knowledge

• Freedom