Philosophy is aGreek wird for 'luv o wit.' It can be uised ti mean monie things.
- A personal wey tae think aboot the warld, or a pairt o it.
- A set o conceits that gangs thegither, wrocht oot bi a bodie that haes studied weys o thinkin aboot the warld.
- The studie o abstract conceits
Philosophy in this airticle means a group o conceits that haes been thocht on bi academicphilosophers (fowk that daes philosophy) for a lang time. Thir conceits haes come tae form a bodie o kennis,knawledge an quaistens that is unco muckle. Thare's monie different kynds o philosophy, some o them comin fraeEurope, in parteecular (Auld)Greece, whaur as ithers comes frae Asie or ither pairts o the warld.
Ae defineetion o philosophy is that it is the studie ohuman beins an thewarld bi thinkin an speirin; anither defineetion is that it is the studie o abstract conceits (that is the conceits theirsels). It isna a pairt oscience sin it daesna observe or studie the things an events in the warld (thescientific method) tae find oot whit wey it wirks. Insteid it ettles tae answer monie quaistens bi comin up wirealistic answers an speirin "whit for no?"
Filosofie is sib taescience an taereleegion an can compete wi thae twa in answerin some quaistens. Some fowk says that philosophy ligs atween science an releegion. Ither fowk says that it shoud be studied its lane. Maist Philosophers (fowk that studies philosophy) disna come up wi the same answers tae quaistens an it is aften thocht that, in contrast wi science or releegion, thare's nae richt answers in philosophy, juist better anes.
Some important quaistens that philosophy speirs, amang ithers, is "Whit isguid an whit is bonnie?", "DaesGod exeest?", "Daes the warld aboot us exeest?", "Whit is abodie?", an "Whit isTruith?".
Philosophy can be sindert intil fields or brainches (that we coud cry disciplines or sorts) foondit on the kynds o quaistens that it speirs. Here is a fuller leet o quaistens sindert intil fields or brainches. Ae possible leet o answers tae thir quaistens can be cried a 'philosophy'. Thare's monie differrin 'philosophys' sin aw thae quaistens haes monie differrin answers.
Inmetapheesics :
Metapheisics is whiles sindert intilontologie (the philosophy o realitie an bein), thephilosophy o mynd an thephilosophy o releegion, houaniver thir sub-brainches is awfu seemlar.
Ontologie:
- Whit is the warld that we see aboot us? (whit isrealitie?)
- Is thare mair tae the warld nor juist the things that we see or hear?
- Whan naebodie sees a thing happen daes that mean that it didna happen?
- Coud thare be ither warlds? For exemplar coud thare be a warld whaurBill Clinton haedna won the1992 US presidential election?
- Is thare oniething byordinar aboot beinHuman or e'en aboot beinAlive at aw ?
- Gin no, whit for daes some fowk think that thare is ?
- Whit is space ? Whit is time ?
The philosophy o mynd:
The philosophy o releegion:
- Daes fowk haeSowels ?
- Is thare a God ?
Inepistemologie
Inethics :
- Whit is Richt an Wrang, Guid an Ill ?
- Shoud fowk dae some things an no ithers ?
- Whit isJuistice ?
InAesthetics :
- Whit isBeautie ?
- Is true things beautiful ?
- Is guid things beautiful ?
- Whit isAirt ?
InLogic :
- Whit daes the wirds we uise mean ?
- Whit for can we say things (conceits in parteecular) sae that thay juist hae the ae meanin ?
- Can aw conceits be expressed uisinwirds ?
- Whit is truith ?
Daes philosophy dae onie guid? Fowk disna gree anent this. Some fowk thinks that philosophy hairms theKirk or theState, as philosophy is a kin o free-thinkin an aften quaistens the beliefs that ithers hauds.
Ither fowk thinks that philosophy is juist ordinarrummle-gumption orpolitics.Philosophers believes that speirin philosophical quaistens is uissfu acause it bringswit an holps fowk ti lairn anent the warld an ilk ither. Some thinks politics is juist acompeteetion orargiement atween philosophys, that can end up wi fowk ettlin tae gar ilk ither dae things bilaw anveeolence. Thiscollogue haes been gaun on for thoosands o yeirs - as haes collogues anent aw the quaistens abuin.
Some philosophers is full-time thinkers (criedacademics), ithers is juist "habby" thinkers, or approaches philosophy frae anither job, for exemplar amonk, anairtist or ascientist. Maist Philosophers wirks bi speirin quaistens an leukin for guid defineetions (meanins) o wirds for tae unnerstaund whit a quaisten means. Some philosophers says the ae thing ye maun hae for tae answer a quaisten is tae find oot whit it means an that the ae thing that maks philosophical quaistens sic as thir abuin difficult is that fowk disna raellie ken whit thay mean (for exemplarLudwig Wittgenstein).
Philosophers will aften uise exemplars frae rael life for tae mak a pynt forby, for exemplar thay micht scrieve anent a rael or feectional chiel for tae shaw thair conceit o a guid cheil or an ill ane.
Some philosophers graip for the semplest gate for tae answer a quaisten an says that thon is maist lik tae be the richt answer. That is a process criedOccam's Razor. Ithers believes that complicate answers ti quaistens can be richt an aw.
For an exemplar o a philosophical kinch, leuk at thegod paradox.
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