what is philosophy?

Long ago, in the Ancient Greek Period, the term philosophy was introduced by Pythagoras, a Greek mathematician. The etymology, the break down/literal meaning, of the word philosophy breaks into two parts: philo and sophia. Philo makes reference to wisdom, while sophia makes reference to a brotherly type of love. The combination of these two words, philosophy, can be directly translated into “the love of wisdom.” Philosophy has been described as the “mother of all sciences.” But philosophy itself, unlike other sciences and curriculum, is somewhat open to interpretation. There are certain things that are fact about philosophy, such as its history or rules that it plays by, but the term philosophy can be juggled. Philosophy is the basic need that humans have to accumulate answers to any questions they may have about life, continue pondering questions and answers to everything known and unknown within human life, and to try and understand answers and questions they may find while helping spread the word to those around them through language.

The famous philosopher, Aristotle, stated that “philosophy begins with wonder.” As humans, we often find ourselves asking the question “why?” Every day when we see something that we don’t understand, hear something we can’t comprehend, or when a particular event happens, we start to question. Questions that may be asked might be “Who, what, when, where, how, and why?” To fully understand something, these are typically questions that may be asked. Normally, the questions of “who, what, when, and where?” are answers that we can find rather easily. The question “how?’ is not always as readily available, but it can be answered in most cases. “Why?” is the true question that we cannot always find the ...

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...remaining open to discussion. The basic elements of philosophy, language and conversation, are the general motors behind the concept. Things that can stop those motors of philosophy are dogmatism, absolutism, and relativism. But when there can still be conversational flow, the dogmatism, absolutism, and relativism are eliminated from the equation, then philosophizing and the Rational Discourse can continue. The point of philosophy is to continue learning, questioning, answering, and understanding everything within our existence, as philosophy itself is the basic need that humans have to accumulate answers to any questions they may have about life, continue pondering questions and answers to everything known and unknown within human life, and to try and understand answers and questions they may find while helping spread the word to those around them through language.