What is Philosophy?

answers1: Loving of wisdom :)
answers2: 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. <br>
You will really get an education with that one as it is any credible
college it is required reading. <br>
Happy New Year
answers3: 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.
answers4: 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 <br>
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.
answers5: the right way to live on this earth without disturbing others. <br>
Do not depend on the other person. philosophy should be benefit to
yourself and not giving troubles to others.