Modes of Philosophy: Philosophy has 3 modes or styles: (i) Speculative (ii) Prescriptive (iii) Analytic

Explain and differentiate three main areas of philosophy: ethics, epistemology and metaphysics 2 Explain the difference between knowledge and beliefs about the physical world (the realm of science) and knowledge and beliefs about moral issues and metaphysical things such as God, Heaven and Hell, and souls

Logic, Phenomenology, and Meta-Pragmatics are the three modes of Philosophical Inquiry given by Johann

Philosophy is focused on something that is abstract and intangible, whereas critical thinking is about being a good person, a “decent, thoughtful” human being This makes philosophy and critical thinking seem like entirely different things

It teaches critical thinking, close reading, clear writing, and logical analysis; it uses these to understand the language we use to describe the world, and our place within it These are philosophical questions, and philosophy teaches the ways in which we might begin to answer them

Critical thinking courses are to be considered as philosophy courses because they introduce students to, and aim to develop in them, the intellectual processes typically characteristic of philosophical discourse and reflection

a philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy while the thinker is one who spends time in deep thinking

Socrates (469 – 399 BC) Athenian philosopher, famous for the Socratic method of questioning every preconception He sought to draw his followers into thinking about questions of life through a series of question His philosophy was spread by his pupil Plato and recorded in Plato’s Republi