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Name: Trixie Ann Kaye A.

Odiamar Date: October 8, 2010


Course and Section: INTFILO, C40 Professor: Ms. Sidney
Diamante

Quiz # 1: Take Home

1. Anciet Poets and Philosophers sought to answer the same

questions. How did they differ in arriving at their answers?

Both Ancient Poets and Philosophers sought to answers the same

questions, but they differ in arriving at their answers. Why? Basically,

Poets doesn’t use logic, Philosophers does. Ancient Poets derived to

their answers by means of relating it to the folks that they already told

(the norms) and were structured over time. They uses their “literary

creativeness” to arrive in such answers to their questions. In a way,

Ancient poets formulates their own reasonings fashioned by what

happens to their surrounding and pattern to the old folks to have a

“coherent facts”. While Philosophers only uses their own logics that

aren’t clouded by thier surroundings. Philosophers isolates their

thoughts in which they wrestles the faces of thier subject /question

(arguements, premises, conclusion, enthmemes, soundeness and the

like.) and extracting the best that they think they produced. And

simply by using logic it can be easily distinguished if the reasoning

either good or bad.


2. Explain the need for logical thinking and the study of logic.

Logical thinking and the study of logic is a need for people to be

more critical and coherent in their thoughts. Where people can arrived

in a “make sense” decision to have an optimum good results. Being a

logical thinker means you uses reasoning constantly to come to a

conclusion. By this you as an individual will be harness to its maximium

potential by utilizing the “God-given brain” that is distinct from other

creatures.

3. Summarize Descartes’ epistemological position and how he

arrived at it.

René Descartes fundamental break with Scholastic philosophy was twofold.

Descartes thought that the Scholastics’ method was prone to doubt given their reliance on

sensation as the source for all knowledge. Descartes attempted to address the former issue

via his method of doubt. From here Descartes sets out to find something that lies beyond

all doubt. He eventually discovers that “I exist” is impossible to doubt and is, therefore,

absolutely certain. It is from this point that Descartes proceeds to demonstrate God’s

existence and that God cannot be a deceiver. Descartes also applied this mechanistic
framework to the operation of plant, animal and human bodies, sensation and the

passions.

Initially, Descartes arrives at only a single principle: thought exists. So Descartes

determines that the only indubitable knowledge is that he is a thinking thing.

URL:

(http://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/)

(http://www.philosophy.utah.edu/faculty/newman/papers/DRE_Blac

kwellCompanion.pdf)

(http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes-epistemology/)

(http://www.directessays.com/viewpaper/13407.html)

4. Why does the philosopher need to be logical.

Philosophers need to be logical because it is the basis or

fundamental of their passion . Being logical is the driving force for

them to be considered as a philosopher or person who thinks very

critically. Because philosophers needs to arrived in a clear and

consistent manner of reasoning for it to be justifiable/ acceptable,

which is (for me) very hard. That is why, in my opinion, Philosophers

are one of the bravest individuals that usually questions the norms and

even the smallest bits of things. Which most of the time facinates
people,like me, and leads to doubting what is presented to us and

make us believe.

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