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Why am I here?
Why was I born?
What am I here for?
what is the purpose of my
existence?
QUESTIONS WE ASK
Why is love complicated?
Why love when you only
get hurt?
Why do people say that
“forever” is not real in love
and relationships?
QUESTIONS WE ASK
Why do people have to die?
What if there is no life after
death?
Why does man have to work
at the expense of health?
Why can’t my parents
understand me?
Philosophical questions:
Are open to examination, further
questioning and enquiry
Can't be answered by appealing
only to scientific investigation or
sense experience
Are questions about meaning,
truth, value, knowledge and
reality
PHILOSOPHICAL
QUESTION
A philosophical question
always contains a bigger
problem.
Philosophical discovery is a
result of collaboration with
partners in dialogue or
conversation.
Philosopher in focus:
SOCRATES( 469- 399 BCE)
- noteworthy in the use of dialectics
-left no writings but conversed with people
from all walks of life using question and
answer as a concrete living out of his famous
advice- “know thyself”
-he was condemned to death because of his
commitment to philosophy.
-his method of question and answer illustrate
how views need to be defended with
consistency and clarity.
-the series of questioning and answering was
effective in drawing out underlying
assumptions.
Summary:
*One has to give good reason as basis
for any claim and the claim must be
able to withstand further scrutiny and
examination.