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Whose wisdom and who makes the decisions about which wisdom is the right wisdom?
Imagination flying with the help of two feathers: True and False.What is Philosophy?
It's the inquiry into the possibility of explaining and the validity of explanations.So can anyone explain philosophy?
I suggest... a different approach to the question, "What is philosophy?" and start from a very simple proposition, one that contains the central question of all philosophy: that the human being, as distinct from God, is mortal or, to speak like the philosophers, is a 'finite being', limited in space and time. As distinct from animals, moreover, a human being is the only creature who is aware of his limits. He knows that he will die, and that his near ones, those he loves, will also die. Consequently he cannot prevent himself from thinking about this state of affaris, which is disturbing and absurd, almost unimaginable. And, naturally enough, he is inclined to turn first of all to those religions which promise 'salvation'.
(Luc Ferry, 'A Brief History of Thought')
Dummy me for not realizing this was a contest.Rakhel said:I don't want wiki answers. Wiki requires no thought. No originality.Skwim said:From Wikipedia,
"Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language."
Using Wiki is cheating.
Well seriously, if I had wanted an answer from WIki, I would have looked myself.Dummy me for not realizing this was a contest.
So what's wrong with Wiki's answer? Or is it that you know what philosophy is, but just wanted to see if we knew or not? In which case a simple:Well seriously, if I had wanted an answer from WIki, I would have looked myself.
Belief in the concrete and absolute nature of definitions is but one of many philosophical theories.So what's wrong with Wiki's answer? Or is it that you know what philosophy is, but just wanted to see if we knew or not?
That's strange. I had several classes in philosophy while in college and don't remember any such theory.Belief in the concrete and absolute nature of definitions is but one of many philosophical theories.