What is Philosophy in philo103

Baby Ingrid L. Cadano IT3 September 30, 2008
Philo103 7:40-9:10 T/TH

What is Philosophy?

Philosophy is a subject for “love of wisdom”, it deals life of ideas or the life of reasons (Introduction to Philosophy, Robert C. Solomon 1977). Some define it as a quest for a comprehensive understanding of human existence. Others say it gives answers that concerns more on wisdom than on knowledge, the answers that are learned from philosophy are based on reasonable and logical arguments. But for me, it is appreciating what our mind could do. At the start I actually don’t know what Philosophy is, the reason why we need to study this field and its connection to our studies and in daily life. I really doubt what the word Philosophy means, what is on my mind for philosophy is basically to understand some theories of the important person in the history which I frankly don’t know. But as time goes by, I come to my definition which is aforementioned above.

In a subject matter for metaphysics they defined “Philosophy as absolutely fundamental reason of everything it investigates” or “the fundamental reasons or causes of all things”. It examines from a deeper understanding and seeing our mind. It facilitate on how we search for truth, trough analysis and abstraction on a certain aspects or from the things themselves.

As days go on to our studies of Philosophy, I am now ready to define what philosophy is from what I learned and understand for this whole semester .I started defining Philosophy at the start as a part of science in which it search for the truth, it studies man's experience in life where he learns to reason through critical thinking that would help human to think and gained a knowledgeable understanding of man’s existence and what is his task in this world. It is also an art, in which it helps people to create a comprehensive and informative vision of his/her insight, and dazzling metaphors from the articles that sharpen human’s mind adds the reason why it is an art. It is also an art of criticism in which we build an analysis to what we believe. Being creative and imaginative is one of the attitudes of either being a good artist or being a good philosopher.

Philosophy is an interest for an intellectual inquiry, where human does not only think but understands more and more to satisfy his/her search for knowledge. Philosophy exists when humans use his/her brain to think and be conscious on the things he/she wanted to know. Knowing is a part of human’s experience in which they seek for answers on every questions on his/her mind. Questions are the core of every Philosophy in which questions starts on how or why, and these questions are more important than the answers and every answer becomes a new question. Philosophy tells that human has no limitation in defining his/her world and the things around human’s ideas, where it leads our mind to be conscious and be aware of the things happening around us. In addition, it gives us the intellectual strength to understand, tolerate, and even sympathize with or adopt views different from our own. We need to adopt those things for the purposes that will meet concerns of human activity.

The true understanding of some people is that Philosophy can’t be defined for it knows no limits just as the human mind knows. There are no boundaries in the Philosophy in searching the rational explanation of reality and of man himself. I almost likely agree to it, but I come to my point of view that I learned and understand Philosophy. Above all, I clearly defined Philosophy in this paper, that my opinion is important for passing on this subject. It is hard to think and search for the true answer of Philosophy, but this is how my mind knows what Philosophy could bring. In a nutshell, we need to study Philosophy as it makes us to be more knowledgeable, good thinker, and knows how build a comprehensive system not just what we believe in but what we believe to. It guides us for our careers, not just in intellectuality aspect or becoming the smartest in the business world but to become a wise being, to see the possibilities and attributes of practicality in life. Lastly, it will make our mind to travel a lot of dimensions that we haven’t known to exist.