is it the only thing you know other people think the exactly same thing when some one says it or what please explain i thought i knew what it was,!. but it seems to be for anybody so it couldnt be what i thought it was!Www@QuestionHome@Com
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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The understanding of reasonings, logical a-priori facts, and pertinent questions about the nature of reality, in pursuit of truth in such areas as the reality of nature (metaphysics), the nature of thought and knowledge (epistemology), the nature of meanings and intentions (semantics), and the nature of the effects of philosophical reasonings!. The nature of philosophical reasoning forms a foundation for such abstract fields as economics, pure science and pure mathematics, law, theology, and political science!. Ethics is often considered a branch of philosophy but may be considered separate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Philosophy is the wisdom of men!. There are many men who have a great insight to mankind and the morals of social settings but they do not come very often!. Every century has about two or three great thinkers and produce writings on their thoughts of living!. Every century there are other men and women who would build on what had been said prior to their own century, and in time philosophies broaden and go deeper than what was thought before them!. It is the thoughts of great thinkers from centuries past to this date that makes "philosophy" what it is today!. There are many trains of thought that do not compliment each other and they have their own followers!. Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, Marx, Machiavelli, and Bertrand Russell all have their different philosophies and their own followers!. Then there is the low brow philosophies of the common man!. Both the educated philosophies and the raw philosophies of the common man run rampant across the world!. Philosophy is man's attempt at wisdom!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The question what philosophy is must be answered before one can say if it is for anybody or just for some people, or for no one!. According to Nietzsche, for instance, it is not for anybody; to the contrary, it's only for the fewest!. And according to Heidegger, true philosophy is what Aristotle called "first philosophy" -- i!.e!., metaphysics!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Translated from Greek!. The love of or loving wisdom!. What it REALLY is would be best described the emotion one experiences when they learn or experience wisdom!.Www@QuestionHome@Com "Philosophy is just a way of talking about discoveries which have already been made!." Paul Dirac (considered the most intelligent physicist of the 20th century by Einstein and other colleagues)!. "A Philosophy of Universality," O!. M!. Aivanhov, "The Path of the Higher Self," Mark Prophet, and "Harry Potter and Philosophy: If Aristotle Ran Hogwarts," ed!. Baggett and Klein, are worthwhile!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Fortune Cookie ? say: Philosophy is an idea!. It could be how something came to be, or how something will be!. =) Love, the Fortune Cookie ?Www@QuestionHome@Com The word philosophy literally means "love of knowledge"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |