Dialectical method. (Thesis, antithesis, synthesis)
Hermeneutical method: understanding documents

Branches of philosophy:
Ontology: A study of being.
Onto: be / logos: study
Fundamental questions.
What is being? Not be reduced to be in a more general concept that it does not exist.
Who is being? Talk about pointing out what is being, and distinguish it from what is not being authentic, this is explained in ...
Being itself: you can not reduce other
Being in another: if you can reduce, therefore not to be.
Heraclitus: Everything flows
Parmenides: Being is not non-being, there can be a movement from one being to another being in the middle because there is not
Qualities of being: immutable and static, infinite, is one.

Epistemology: Study of knowledge, scientific knowledge (gnoselogia division).
Knowledge: A process in which a subject comes into contact with an object, and through a trial, it is a concept of this.
Elements: Subject, Object, Reckoning, Concept.
Knowledge types: Sensing (directions) & abstract (general knowledge of the object).
Epistemology.



Fundamental question
Can man attain truth with certainty?
Truth: the truth as it is the relationship of adequacy or conformity between knowledge and the thing is, between subject and object.
Kinds of truth: ontological (the object is consistent with the concept), Moral (The expression is consistent with the internal view of who is talking), Logic (knowledge is consistent with the object)
States of mind to the truth: ignorance, doubt, suspicion, opinion, certainly
Problems of knowledge: Skepticism, Relativism, the phenomenon.

Ethics: A study of human action, determines what is good and from this point of view, how to act. Making judgments, such as: this is 'right', 'incorrect', 'required', 'allowed', and so on.
Difference between ethics & moral.
Fundamental question of ethics.
Human acts, those who study ethics
and acts of man acts instinctively (ill)
Moral problems of today
Abortion, prostitution, drug addiction, corruption, social aggressiveness.