Philosophy question!?

Peggy Sandefer: "Philosophy is an ability to consider everything from the point of the one, and to consider the one from the point of everything" Pavel Solomonovich Yushkevich, Russian famous philosopher. But if you need it, philosophy can become a strict science (and you can even get some scientific degree and diploma). Then it will be called a science. like chemistry or economics. It can become some kind of art - music, poetry, architecture, painting... Nietzsche, José Ortega y Gasset were interested in arts and in greatest writers, musicians, artists. It can resemble religion or even include itself into it - then it becomes religious philosophy (Saint Augustin, Thomas Aquinas). It can become a world view for a separate person. It can even be irrational and become a mystic philosophy. But it is always a WAY OF THINKING and a DEFINITE MINDSET. You are almost to fail, trying ti find some "clear" (pure) philosopher in a world history - they are always astronomers, mathem! aticians, lawyers, biologists, physicians, physicists. And oh - even ordinary person can eventually create a philosophic text or initiate philosophic discussion. *My colleague told me, how by his sight two philosophers fought with each other just during philosophic congress. The point of quarrel was: whether philosophy is a science or not. But this is already not good, I think......Show more

Len Dalba: I'll try and boil it down to the most basic definition.Philosophy is the question of "why" about various issues of life.Just about every question that philosophy deals with is regarding why something exists or happens.Whether it be why the universe exists, or life, or man, or why we do what we do; that's looked into by Philosophy.Lot's of other fields of study deal with the who, what, where, when, and how, but most don't really ever delve into the why....Show more

Sonya Volcko: Philosophy, for me is the Art of thought. So Why philosophy is important to the human d! evelopment, and what were we doing if we didn't use philosophy! ? I think you can start from there