I have a vague idea of what Philosophy is all about but I'm just wondering if you could write what you think it is means and what it means to study it.
2007-03-22 22:51:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
There are many definitions for philosophy in the dictionary.
My favorite is, "The love and pursuit of knowledge and wisdom."
It's simple and to the point...like philosophy should be.
Most junior philosophers neither love or pursuit knowledge and wisdom, but instead regurgitate what they've read in a book or heard in a class.
Be different.
2007-03-23 14:57:30 · answer #1 · answered by damagui 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends if you're talking real philosophy..... or what they try to teach you while calling it philosophy.
I swear... I roll my eyes when I hear about people studying philosophy, because it seems as though all they get taught is the history of philosophers and what -they- thought... which isn't the same at all. It puts people in a position where all they really need to do is say "I agree with that", and apply no more thought at all.
While I do believe one can be inspired by others, it tends to be sprayed liberally with direct influence too.... causing you to think as they do.... Wisdom however comes from the self inside; not from the world outside. And besides... if you can independantly derive a philosophy without outside influence, only to find that it has been done before.... it only serves to strengthen the point (much like the independant derivation of wings in insects, birds and bats demonstrates a stable means of achieving flight).
All in all, I don't believe philosophy should be studied at all, as that subtracts from its validity... Rather it should be independantly and internally pondered....
2007-03-23 06:26:52 · answer #2 · answered by Nihilist Templar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As a college graduate with a major in philosophy I just want to say...
Philosophy (for me, personally) is everything you've already learned by the time you're about 16 , except you weren't really paying attention then. It's really a thorough study of life and death from the different metaphysical and existential perspectives.
2007-03-23 06:18:51 · answer #3 · answered by mojo_lorelai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophy is a discipline concerning man existence.
It tries to answer different questions on life, behavior, religion, belief, environment and many other subjective fields.
As it isn't related to material things, there can't be an absolute definition of philosophy.
It is made up of thoughts and conclusions (relative one's)!
2007-03-23 06:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by emi79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ultimately, philosophy is everything we do not know, so it has been whittled down by science over the past centuries.
For me it reduces to epistemology -- what we can know, and how we know we know it. That will never stop being a true question.
2007-03-23 06:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
philosophy is not an study or academic course .... it means only reasoning the world we live in !.
2007-03-23 10:47:32 · answer #6 · answered by menova 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
philosophy is is ones ideas on life,religion,socialism,idealism and your take on life.some of our greatest inventors,artists,astronamers were our greatest thinkers plato,socrates,galillao,da vinci,soranson,wagner,nietzche,voltaire,confucios
2007-03-23 06:12:25 · answer #7 · answered by michael h 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋