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Introduction To:: By: Raquel B. Disomimba

Philosophy involves thinking and gaining insights. There are two aspects to consider regarding insights: the insight itself and what to do with the insight. Insights can be analyzed to deepen understanding or enjoyed directly. Examples of insights include realizing that all generations of people and leaves eventually wither and die, and that the number 4 can be understood as different combinations of units. Gaining insights involves abstracting common themes from individual examples through activities like counting.

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Introduction To:: By: Raquel B. Disomimba

Philosophy involves thinking and gaining insights. There are two aspects to consider regarding insights: the insight itself and what to do with the insight. Insights can be analyzed to deepen understanding or enjoyed directly. Examples of insights include realizing that all generations of people and leaves eventually wither and die, and that the number 4 can be understood as different combinations of units. Gaining insights involves abstracting common themes from individual examples through activities like counting.

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INTRODUCTION TO:

BY: RAQUEL B. DISOMIMBA


What Does it mean to Philosophize?

Philosophy is easier to do than to define.


• At this stage, it is safe to say that we
associate philosophy with thinking.
• Crucial element in thinking is insight.
• Insight is seeing with the mind.
e.g. insight into a joke
Two things to be considered regarding insight:
a. the insight itself
b. what do I do with insight

I can analyze the insight., but if I am


merely enjoying the joke, analysis can kill
my enjoyment, but if I am to the joke to
others, analysis can deepen and clarify
the original insight and help in the
effective delivery.
EXAMPLE: Death of a grandfather at 110 years old.
I listen to the story of my grandfather in his youth,
think of myself as full of high spirits, dashing,
popular, but high spirits are not inexhaustible.

INSIGHT: Generations of men start life full of vigor,


then wither away and die after they have given life
to their own sons.

Homer made a metaphor of this insight: “ As the


generations of leaves, so the generations of
men”
Another example:

number 4 can be analyzed into


2+2=4 or 1+1+1+1=4.

How did we gain an insight into “4”?

By counting, e.g. cars,


abstracting the common and
preceding from the individual characteristics
of a car.
SUMMARY:
• Insight is seeing with the mind: only you can do
it. I cannot see it for you but I can help you see
it.
• There are many ways of doing with insight.
• Some insights are so deep they cannot be
exhausted.
• It takes insight to do something with insight, like
the metaphor of Homer.
• Insight brings us to the very heart of reality, and
reality is so deep and unfathomable.

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