What is Philosophy?

Question

How do you define Philosophy?

Answer 1

philosophy is a Hellenic word that comes from two words 1.philos that means friend and 2. sophy (sophia) that means wisdom. so a philosopher is a friend of wisdom and philosophy is the love of wisdom and it was born in ancient Greece.

Answer 2

It starts with an idea, formulated in the brain and then someone forms the words to make an opinion out loud on what they think should be in any situation. And it is all hypothetical until placed into position for the majority to rule on one philosophy, after that is formed and ruled on they make the philosophies into laws of the land. Most times philosophy comes from common sense if it is any brain that is well functioning. So if you want to read the worlds leading philosopher of all time "World as Will and Representation" by Arthur Schopenhauer.
You will really get an education with that one as it is any credible college it is required reading.
Happy New Year

Answer 3

Philosophy is a well coordinated and systematised attempt at evaluating life and the universe as a whole, with reference to first principles that underlie all things as their causes and are implicit in all experience. It is an impartial approach to all problems and aspects of life and existence, and its studies are not devoted merely to the empirical world, as in the case of the physical and biological sciences; not restricted to the provinces of faith and authority or to the questions of the other world, as is the case with theological disquisitions; not confined to investigation of the mind and its behaviour, as in psychology; not given over merely to casuistry and ethology, as in the normative science of morality and ethics; not taken up with the consideration of civic duties and problems of administration and constitution, as in the case of politics; not concerned with the solution of problems and techniques of adjusting and ordering and discovering the origin and organisation and development of human society, like economics and sociology; but are adapted for an exhaustive treatment of the basic presuppositions of each and every one of these, as also of what is other than and beyond all these, that on which all these are ultimately founded and which is the ground of all knowledge and experience in general. Philosophy investigates the very possibility and conditions of knowledge, its extent, nature and value. It bases itself on facts already known and rises above them to absolute verities, on which all phenomena depend and by which alone they can be rationally explained. It is not circumscribed by the limitations of the past, present and future, by the laws of
this place or that country, but refers to all times, places and conditions. Philosophy is the most inclusive of all branches of learning, and acts as a touchstone to all other aspects of human knowledge.

Answer 4

the right way to live on this earth without disturbing others.
Do not depend on the other person. philosophy should be benefit to yourself and not giving troubles to others.

Answer 5

Loving of wisdom :)