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Philosophy

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Philosophyis aGreekwird 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,knawledgean 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.

Innin[eedit|eedit soorce]

Ae defineetion o philosophy is that it is the studie ohumanbeins an thewarldbi thinkin an speirin; anither defineetion is that it is the studie o abstract conceits (that is the conceits theirsels). It isna a pairt osciencesin 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 wirealisticanswers an speirin "whit for no?"

Filosofie is sib taesciencean taereleegionan 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 isguidan whit is bonnie? "," DaesGodexeest? "," Daes the warld aboot us exeest? "," Whit is abodie?",an" Whit isTruith?".

Fields or brainches o philosophy[eedit|eedit soorce]

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 myndan 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 Clintonhaedna won the1992US presidential election?
  • Is thare oniething byordinar aboot beinHumanor e'en aboot beinAliveat 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?

Is philosophy uissfu?[eedit|eedit soorce]

Daes philosophy dae onie guid? Fowk disna gree anent this. Some fowk thinks that philosophy hairms theKirkor 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-gumptionorpolitics. Philosophers believes that speirin philosophical quaistens is uissfu acause it bringswitan holps fowk ti lairn anent the warld an ilk ither. Some thinks politics is juist acompeteetionorargiementatween philosophys, that can end up wi fowk ettlin tae gar ilk ither dae things bilawanveeolence.Thiscolloguehaes been gaun on for thoosands o yeirs - as haes collogues anent aw the quaistens abuin.

Whit for dae fowk dae philosophy[eedit|eedit soorce]

Some philosophers is full-time thinkers (criedacademics), ithers is juist "habby"thinkers, or approaches philosophy frae anither job, for exemplar amonk,anairtistor 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.

Some philosophers[eedit|eedit soorce]

The firstGreekphilosophers[eedit|eedit soorce]

LaterEuropeanPhilosophers[eedit|eedit soorce]

Modren European anAmericanPhilosophers[eedit|eedit soorce]

AsiePhilosophers (whiles cried Eastren Philosophers)[eedit|eedit soorce]

Fremmit airtins[eedit|eedit soorce]