Based on the first chapter's contents, I was able to build a thorough understanding about the significance of human and thought, in addition to having a brief understanding on UTM's philosophy. In this chapter, we dived deep into the definition and meaning of thinking, along with comparisons between the Islamic and the western points of view about it. Then, chapter 1 shifted to discussing about the development and evolution of wisdom and philosophy, dating back to the Greek meanings of the concepts, and dissecting the intrinsic values of each of them. Moreover, this chapter explores values and status of western thinking, as well as walking the reader through a brief historical overview of the most renowned philosophers that the western school of thought mostly based many of its values upon. In my opinion, I think chapter 1 served as a great introductory to this course, given its introductory features -which prepare the mind of the student for what's coming.
