Philosophy
[fɪ'lɒsəfɪ] or [fə'lɑsəfi]
Definition
(noun.) any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation; 'self-indulgence was his only philosophy'; 'my father's philosophy of child-rearing was to let mother do it'.
(noun.) the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics.
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Definition
(n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
(n.) A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
(n.) Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
(n.) Reasoning; argumentation.
(n.) The course of sciences read in the schools.
(n.) A treatise on philosophy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Science of causes or first principles, science of the absolute, the science of sciences.[2]. Principles (of any department of knowledge), laws.[3]. Hypothesis, theory, system, doctrine.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Something that enables the rich to say there is no disgrace in being poor.
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Examples
- In translating him into the language of modern thought, we might insensibly lose the spirit of ancient philosophy. Plato. The Republic.
- There seem to be two great aims in the philosophy of Plato,--first, to realize abstractions; secondly, to connect them. Plato. The Republic.
- It is suggestive that among the Greeks, till the rise of conscious philosophy, the same word, techne, was used for art and science. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Art cannot claim to be on a level with philosophy or religion, and may often corrupt them. Plato. The Republic.
- You know my philosophy, Mr Maurice; so why expect me to be false to it? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He got a copy of Parker's School Philosophy, an elementary book on physics, and about every experiment in it he tried. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Oh Philosophy, guide of life! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They gain an imaginary distinctness when embodied in a State or in a system of philosophy, but they still remain the visions of 'a world unrealized. Plato. The Republic.
- Let us help each other through seasons of want and woe as well as we can, without heeding in the least the scruples of vain philosophy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is of assistance to connect philosophy with thinking in its distinction from knowledge. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Then, when active life is over, let him finally return to philosophy. Plato. The Republic.
- And if the world perceives that what we are saying about him is the truth, will they be angry with philosophy? Plato. The Republic.
- Philosophy, he says, is surely the ultimate end of human knowledge, or the object at which all sciences properly must aim. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a fundamental principle of the Gradgrind philosophy that everything was to be paid for. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Lambert (1728-1777), Kant found a genius akin to his own, and through him hoped for a reformation of philosophy on the basis of the study of science. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Three typical historic philosophies of education were considered from this point of view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Without doubt, all these things characterize historic philosophies more or less. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In general, it may be said that the educational division finds a reflection in the dualistic philosophies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In all the political philosophies there is none so adapted to its end. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Moral philosophies which have started from such premises have developed four typical ways of dealing with the question. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- If there are genuine uncertainties in life, philosophies must reflect that uncertainty. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Why in the face of hundreds of philosophies wrecked on the rocks of the unexpected do men continue to believe that the intellect can transcend the vicissitudes of experience? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Popular terms denoting knowledge have always retained the connection with ability in action lost by academic philosophies. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For though a personal vision may at times assume an eloquent and universal language, it is well never to forget that all philosophies are the language of particular men. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The important social philosophies are consciously or otherwise the servants of men's purposes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The desire for self-direction has made a thousand philosophies as contradictory as the temperaments of the thinkers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Such homespun philosophies are genuine and often adequate. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typist: Rex