philosophy is i know no what?

Answer 1

Philosophy is the pursuit of truth. This means, for example, that you look at all sides of an argument (suicide, abortion, capital punishment, etc) and list all the arguments both for and against, regardless of how you personally feel about it. It doesn't really aim to give you the 'answer' - it aims to give you ALL the facts / arguments from BOTH sides and allows you to make up your mind, when in possession of all the facts.

It also looks at things such as what is your 'mind' as opposed to what is your 'brain'? Are they the same? If not, where is the mind?

Then it can be about reality and appearance. As this would take me all night to go on and on about, may I recommend that you read a thin little book (but big on facts!) entitled 'The Problems of Philosophy' by Bertrand Russell. Published in about 1910, it's still the BEST introduction to philosophy I've seen.

Enjoy!

Answer 2

I know nothing, it is paradoxical, deeply confusing and therefore a controversial concept. The simplest explanation for this concept could be that since there is nothing that can be known absolutely completely about anything, and there are countless things equally completely unknowable in existence, therefore all endeavours to gain certain knowledge of any kind are futile, and the zenith of all learning is in fact in the acknowledgement of ignorance; therefore one will be wise to realise that he or she knows nothing, as Socrates himself realised when he we told by the Oracle that he was the wisest among all men, upon which he said but I know nothing.

The philosophical fact is that if something gains an absolute knowledge of something else than that thing will evenually become the thing that it knows about, so much so that the knowledge of the thing itself will not find a place in the initial thing which is now all but the knowledge of something it has known asolutely. If for example know something absolutely than that something will be so much part of me that I will not know that thing as my knowledge but as my actual self.

Another point of view could be that there is nothing in this world that is absolute or absolutely unique. For example we are human, our shape, form and function are direct derivatives of our environment - we would be a different type of people if we were living in a different environment somewhere else in the universe. I therefore can only be know if my environment is known. So there is nothing in terms of absolute knowledge of myself. If you got to know a fruit you are bound to learn about its seed; two things are different in human definition but they are transitively same – one will eventually produce the other. By the principle nothing can be known as isolation.

And if I say I know nothing, this is not merely a humble acknowledgement of my lack of knowledge, it can have another meaning: I know nothingness. If for example I know the concept of zero I could extrapolate numbers along both diminution on a number line- positive numbers and negative numbers. Thus if I have a knowledge of absence, I can also have precise knowledge of presence.

Answer 3

Perhaps that's your philosophy, but my theory is you don't know grammar.

Answer 4

When i want to know what philosophy is I just think of science. science is what it is...nuthin more.its how it is,solid fact,unchangeable.philosophy is how it should be.

Answer 5

absolute 2

Answer 6

single and definitive answer.

Answer 7

absolute

Answer 8

No, buggered if I know either!

Answer 9

whatever.