Filsafat Ilmu 1 Love of Wisdom

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Mengapa Belajar Filsafat Itu

Penting?


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Apakah Filsafat Itu?

Secara etimologi berasal dari kata Philoso-phia

(Yunani)

philein artinya mencintai atauphilos artinyateman

sophos artinya bijaksana atau Sophia artinya

kebijaksanaan

love of wisdom.


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love of wisdom.

Memberi kita dua hal yang penting untukmelangkah maju: cinta (love/passion) dankebijaksanaan

(wisdom/knowledge/understanding).

Kata yang pertama harus menjadi perhatianutama karena aspek ini seringdikesampingkan dalam academicphilosophy: love and passion.


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What is Wisdom?*

Hampir setiap saat filsafat dipelajari tanpapassion dan tanpa cinta,sebagaimana mempelajari pelajaran teknis seperti engineeringatausimple mathematics.

Filsafat harus dimulai dari suatu dorongan passion untuk mencapaitujuan utama dan disinilah pertanyaan tentang kebijaksanaanmuncul.

Filsafat mempunyai titikberat tentang mempertanyakan segalasesuatu pertanyaan-pertanyaan yang pada kenyataannya tidakakan pernah mendapatkan jawaban akhirnya.


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2 Complimentary tasks of Philosophy*

CRITICAL and CONSTRUCTIVE

TheCriticaltask of philosophy meliputi: memberikanpertanyaan yang sulit tentang berbagai klaim kebenaran baik

yang telah menjadi kebenaran umum ataupun kebenaranyang disampaikan oleh seorang filsuf.

A critical philosophy is not one that criticizes, in the carping, censoriousway where nothing is ever right.

CRITIQUE is the attempt to get behind knowledge claims and ask, What

makes them possible?

TheConstructiveaspect of philosophy meliputi:mengembangkan gambaran realitas yang akurat danproduktif.


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The Hope of Philosophy*

The hope of philosophy is to understand: understandourselves, understand our world, understand our values andthe entirety of existence around us.

We humans wantto understand such things and, withoutprodding or pushing, we naturally develop philosophy in orderto develop such understanding.

This means that everyone does at least a little bit ofphilosophy, even when they have never experienced formaltraining.

Aristotle (Metaphysics I): All men by nature desire to know.


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Does Philosophy ever accomplishanything?*

Many people tend to think of philosophy as an idle pursuit,never amounting to much.

Reason: If we go back and look at the works of ancientGreek philosophers, well find that they were asking the samequestions which philosophers ask today.

Is this true? Certainly not philosophy is not simplysomething for egghead academics in ivory towers.

On the contrary, all humans engage in philosophy in oneform or another because we are philosophizing creatures.


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FACT: It is true that remainingwith philosophy does notafford an especially wide range of career options.

But skillwith philosophy is something which can be readilytransferred to fields like law, public policy and more.

Basically, anything which requires careful thinking,systematic reasoning, and an ability to ask and address

difficult questions will benefit from a background inphilosophy.

Quite aside from career options, philosophy is also importantfor those who, on their own time, desire to learn more aboutthemselves and about life.

Such activities are themselves philosophical pursuits, and assuch can benefit from any background in an academic studyof the subject.


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The philosophical enterprise: threedisciplines

1. Discipline of questioning Cessation of questioning leads only to the stagnation

and arresting of growth.

2. Discipline of liberation What are the consequence if a person engages in blind

adherence, unquestioning acceptance, andthoughtless conformity in the presence of societalstructures that close avenues to the truth?

3. Discipline of personhood Ones life is ones life is ones own unique creative

project. Sren Kierkegaard


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What are some of the benefits ofstudying philosophy?*

Problem Solving Skills:

Philosophy is all about asking difficult questions and developinganswers which can be reasonably and rationally defended against

hard, skeptical questioning.

Philosophers need to learn how to analyze concepts, definitionsand arguments in a way conducive towards developing solutions forparticular problems.

Because of this, you can also have an increased assurance thatyour beliefs may be reasonable, consistent and well-foundedbecause you have examined them systematically and carefully.


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Benefit 2

Communication Skills:

A person who excels at communicating in the field of

philosophy can also excel at communication in other areas.

Philosophers are expected to express their ideas clearly andprecisely, both in speaking and in writing.

While those ideas may seem incomprehensible to those whoare unfamiliar with the topic or jargon, this also tends to bethe case with the physical sciences.


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Benefit 3

Self-Knowledge:

It is also worth noting that it isn't just a matter of better

communication with othersthat is helped by the study ofphilosophy understanding yourselfis improved.

The very nature of philosophy is such that you get a betterpicture of what you yourself believe simply through working

through those beliefs in a careful and systematic fashion.


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Benefit 4

Persuasive Skills:

The whole purpose in philosophy of developing problemsolving and communication skills is not simply to gain a betterunderstanding of the world, but also to get others to agreewith that understanding.

Good persuasive skills are thus important in the field ofphilosophy because a person needs to defend her own viewsand to offer insightful critiques of the views of others.


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Who cares about doing philosophywell?*

EVERYONEwho cares about whether or not their answers arereasonable, well-founded, well-developed and coherent.

Those are the qualities which the study of philosophy can bring to a

person's questioning and curiosity, and that is why the subject is soimportant.

We may never arrive at any finalanswers, but in many ways it isthejourneywhich is most important, not the destination.

*Source: Cline, Austin. Introduction to Philosophy: Defining, Studying, Doing Philosophyis Important. Why Do Atheists Need Philosophy? We Need to Reason Well About Life & Society.

Available at http://atheism.about.com/od/aboutphilosoph1/a/philosophyintro.htm.


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Reference: Cline, Austin. Introduction to Philosophy: Defining, Studying, Doing Philosophy

is Important. Why Do Atheists Need Philosophy? We Need to Reason Well AboutLife & Society. Available athttp://atheism.about.com/od/aboutphilosoph1/a/philosophyintro.htm.

Kavanaugh, John S.J.The Philosophical Enterprise.


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COME AND JOIN US!!! Philosophy is the wisdom of love in

the service of love. Emmanuel Levinas, Otherwise than Being

"... [E]vil is an invention of freedom....[A]n

ethical vision of evil is a vision in which

freedom is revealed in its depths as power

to act and power to be; the freedom thatevil supposes is a freedom capable of

digression, deviation, subversion,

wandering."

Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of

Interpretations

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