INSTITUT PROFESIONAL

BAITULMAL

ASSIGNMENT 2: WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT

( BOOK REVIEW “ 25 FILSUF BARAT ” )

NAME : LUQMAN HAKIM BIN JEFRI

NO. MATRIX : DPM201822874
CLASS : DPM 1A
SUBJECT : ELU 2113
LECTURER : MADAM AMERLIA BT ADZIAN
 KISAH 25 FILSUF BARAT

Genre : Pseudo-academic
Published : PUTIH PRESS
Author : Matluthfi
Page : 229 pages ( 25 chapter )
Release Date : 14 Dec 2016
Price: RM 25.00 (Sem. Malaysia)
RM 27.00 (Sabah/Serawak)

PHILOSOPHER: They are not prophets, but they are also inspirational

A philosopher is a person engaged or learned in philosophy, especially as an academic

discipline. The Philosopher is synonyms with thinker, theorist, or logician. The noun philosophy
means the study of good and proper behavior and the search for wisdom. The original meaning
of word philosophy comes from the Greek roots Philo- meaning “ love” and –Sophos, or
“wisdom”. When someone studies philosophy, they want to understand how and why people do
certain things and how to live a good life. In other words, they want to know the meaning of life.
Add the suffix –er to philosophy, and you get a word for someone whose job it is to think these
big thoughts. “Filsuf Barat” or western philosopher is not a prophet, they are not receiving
messages from God and preserved from sin and made mistakes. In contrast to the knowledge we
mostly get based on scripture and religious texts, methods, and sources of knowledge of most
western philosophers are often criticized for using the logic of mind, observation and a
combination between the two. However, their ideas still being discussed until today after
hundreds and thousands of years because of one thing–that they have tried to answer the same
question that human think today.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: Matluthfi

 Mat Luthfi or his real name Muhammad Luthfi
Bin Rohime, vlogger and YouTuber from Kedah. He was
born on 23 June 1990. He is also graduate in Bachelor`s
degree in Architecture and Built Environment at Curtin
University, Perth, Australia. At the 25-year old has
produced many video blogs with issues that mostly
revolves around issues faced by youths such as
experience in student council, part-time teaching jobs,
and possible scenarios after receiving your SPM result.
Besides that, he also got a variety award such as Shout
Aloud Award 2012 and 2013 and Most Popular Youtube Act by Berita Harian 2013. Before this
book, he published two other books, the books are “ Catatan Matluthfi ” and “ Momen-momen
Matlutfi ”.

Famous Philosophical Figure

SOCRATES (470/469 B.C – 399 B.C)

Socrates was held as “ The Father of Western Philosophy ”, devoting himself to

philosophy throughout his life like as he once said, “I will not quit philosophy as long as I’m still
breathing”. Throughout his life, Socrates tries to invite Athens to find the truth and change their
lifestyle. At the end of his life, Socrates was sentenced to death by drinking poison because of
accusation influencing young people Athens with its philosophical teachings and disrespect
religious traditions.
 PLATO ( 424 BC- 347 BC )

Plato was one of the students of Socrates. His book became a reference until now that is
The Republic (380 BC), The Symposium (385 BC- 370 BC) and The Laws ( 348 BC). Plato
thinks that true love is admiration, this means that people we love are the person who has the
qualities we do not have. He also reminds us not to scold and insult that people who do not the
same opinion as us. Plato died at age 80-years old.

ARISTOTLE (384 BC- 322BC)

Aristotle from Macedonia and get a title as “The Master” and “ The Philosopher ” from
the kingdom of Macedon. He is also a teacher to Alexander The Great from Macedonia. He says
that the noble nature has 11 things, that is courage, simplify, freedom, beauty, generosity, self-
worth, honesty, intimacy, humility and a clever joke. Aristotle said,“ people who lack these noble
qualities are unfortunate and not bad people, they should be pitied ”.

Personal View
 My personal view for this book is the author tries to simplify the reader’s
understanding of philosophy makes it fun. Beside that, this book teaches us that we need to
expand and free our thinking not to think within a single scope and understand that knowledge is
broad, not only belongs to the Muslim but also belongs to Non-Muslim. In other words, Muslims
do not have to be dogmatic by denying the progress they bring in knowledge. However, as long as
the end result of the philosophy is beneficial to religious life, then do it. On the other hand, there
will be times and things that a philosophy cannot achieve and contrary to religious life, then make
religion a priority.

Conclusion

As a conclusion, we should cultivate the reading culture in our lives so that our
knowledge will increase. Next, the parent needs to cultivate a reading culture to their children
when they are young. In addition, it is also important for us to choose the reading material that
gives your benefits to yourself. Lastly, I hope that one day we can invite writers to give a speech
and talk here.

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