What is your definition of philosophy?

Jak January 01, 2020 at 12:12 1950 views 5 comments

I have to be honest here. Although i have been pre-occupying myself with the term philosophy, I don't think i ever got to defining what philosophy is most of the days. My definition of philosophy is not rigid, unchanging, and baseless. It is not rigid, changing and with a base. I understand the common definition of philosophy is it is a practice that concerns us with the fundamental questions of life and more. How far along has your practice brought you to the answers? My personal definition of philosophy is that i don't have one.

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Lif3r January 01, 2020 at 20:37 #367659 0 likes

Your philosophy is that you dont have a definition for philosophy.

That's one philosophy in your life that you have given here. As for the fact that it is a contradiction in and of itself is evident.

In other words: not a very good philosophy in my opinion.

Lif3r January 01, 2020 at 20:42 #367661 0 likes

Google it. Seriously those are the clearest definitions and people try to constrict philosophy to individual aspects of philosophy without the willingness to acknowledge a philosophy as philosophy simply when they do not like the line of thought. A philosophy of a subject can be stupid, but does not make it any less philosophical.

Pfhorrest January 02, 2020 at 02:46 #367752 0 likes

Philosophy is the application of abstract tools from language, mathematics, and the arts, tools like logic and rhetoric, to the job of creating the tools needed for the practical sciences to do their jobs of sorting out what is true or real on the one hand, and what is good or moral on the other hand, so that engineers can create technologies that give us the right tools, and entrepreneurs can create businesses that gives us the right jobs, to accomplish anything else.

Brett January 02, 2020 at 02:58 #367755 0 likes

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Quoting Jak

I don't think i ever got to defining what philosophy is most of the days.

I wouldn’t think about it too much.