In Helen Mitchell first chapter, it was basically talking about how we explore the territory and the methods of philosophy. Starting how the pre-Socratic cosmologists launched a Western tradition of philosophy, that was mark off the traditional division of the philosophical thought. The Metaphysics is the ones to consider what is real through cosmologists. And then you have Epistemology, and what they do is explore the source of knowledge, and they focus on how we know what we think that we know. However, the Axiology focus on the values, mostly on ethics and emphasis on morals and rules for conduct. Philosophy in the western part, it all started with the Thales. It says that the Thales and his fellow Milesians were the first people in the …show more content…
Form vs matter led us to view ourselves and the world of subject and object, observer or observed, other than interrelated and interdependent. Patriarchal identify men as rationality and the women as emotion and the nature of the world, but that’s only if women would claim rationality. Virtual reality, cause people to wonder what version of reality is more reliable. Chapter two for the most part ask questions like, “are we getting closer to understanding what is real and how to judge whether we have the real thing or an imitation,” according to the book Roots of Wisdom (page …show more content…
The reason Socrates would be considered is because, Socrates and his method of continuous questioning created the model of the western search for truth. The dialectic method says that, false ideas can be exposed, and true ideas would be those that stands up. Socrates distinguished philosophy as a lifework and the love of wisdom as something that is worth dying for. Socrates would also ask someone the obvious, and he would have them explain the basic things. To Socrates, that was his way of finding the truth. You have to find out where you are dumb at in order to purse the knowledge of wisdom. In my opinion, if you feel that you are comfortable with all there is to know, then you don’t need to seek the truth. We all have to question what we do or say, in order to get our own better judgement. We are all entitled to ask questions, just like we all are entitled to believe what we want to believe even after we find out the