• Know the meanings of the root Greek words that the English word philosophy comes from (philand sophia).
• Understand our definition of philosophy as a breakdown of the field into its three main branches of content
• Understand those three branches by knowing types of questions that would fall under each: questions about reality, knowledge and evaluative assertions
• What makes Value Theory unique in terms of the type of claims it is concerned with developing, understanding, and evaluating? (Hint: evaluative assertions as opposed to descriptive ones)