What is Philosophy?

What is Philosophy?

                The word “Philosophy” means “love of wisdom”. We can recognise it as an activity that people do when they try to have understanding about themselves, the environment they live and their relationships with the society.  Philosophers are often engaged in questioning, rationing and reasoning on the fundamental questions of life. In short, Philosophy is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality and existence. In general use, it is a guiding principal for behaviour or governance.

                It is important to study philosophy in order to understand others and to make the right decisions. How important it is ability to respect the opinion of others and to be able to understand the feelings of others while living in society? So, I think it is very valuable to have an understanding of philosophy.

                To solve philosophical questions, we must follow philosophical methods, but there is not just one method that philosophers use to solve philosophical questions.

The followings are some of those philosophical methods.

v  Questioning

v  Critical argument

v  Rational argument

v  Systematic presentation

Do you still have a problem with what philosophical questions are? I will show you some examples of philosophical questions.


v  Is there a god

v  What is truth

v  How do we know what we know

v  What is good(when making decisions)

v  Is reincarnation a fact?


The philosophy is divided into major areas for ease of study.

1.       Epistemology

       Epistemology is the study of Knowledge. Here we talk about the world and how we can know it. 

Ex:

  • Do we know any think at all?
  • How do we know what we know?

2.       Ethics

       Here we talk about what to do and what is the best to do.

Ex : 

  • What is good? What make actions or people good?
  • How should I treat others?

3.       Logic

       People’s answers to the questions and the reasons given are very important in studying philosophy. To this end, philosophers use logic to study the nature and structure of arguments.

Ex : What constitutes “Good” or “Bad” reasoning?

4.       Metaphysics

       Metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality, of what exists in the word,  what it is like and how it is ordered.

Ex : 

  • Is there a god?
  • Do people have minds?

 

           you will now realised that philosophy is very important to solve problems of the kind mentioned above, to gain a signification understanding of the world, to understand the feelings of others and to make the most right decisions in life. So, finally I suggest doing a significant study on philosophy.

           What is Your Philosophy?



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