Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The study of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on logical reasoning.
- noun A system of thought based on or involving such study.
- noun The study of the theoretical underpinnings of a particular field or discipline.
- noun An underlying theory or set of ideas relating to a particular field of activity or to life as a whole.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The body of highest truth; the organized sum of science; the science of which all others are branches; the science of the most fundamental matters. ; ;
- noun A special branch of knowledge of high speculative interest
- noun Any such science, as alchemy (in Chaucer).
- noun Theology: this nse of the word was common in the middle ages
- noun Psychology and ethics; moral philosophy.
- noun Physics; natural philosophy.
- noun The fundamental part of any science; propædeutic considerations upon which a special science is founded; general principles connected with a science, but not forming part of it; a theory connected with any branch of human activity: as, the philosophy of. science; the philosophy of history; the philosophy of government.
- noun A doctrine which aims to be philosophy in any of the above senses.
- noun A calm temper which is unruffled by small annoyances; a stoical impassiveness under adversity
- noun See the adjectives.
- noun The philosophy of Hegel. Also called
objective philosophy .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Literally, the love of, inducing the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
- noun A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
- noun Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism.
- noun Reasoning; argumentation.
- noun The course of sciences read in the schools.
- noun A treatise on philosophy.
- noun that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy.
- noun that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens.
- noun that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens.
- noun that of Zeno and the Stoics; -- so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall in Athens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable, originally The
love ofwisdom . - noun uncountable An
academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism. - noun countable A
comprehensive system ofbelief . - noun countable A
view oroutlook regardingfundamental principles underlying some domain. - noun countable A
general principle (usuallymoral ). - noun archaic A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
- verb To
philosophize .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
- noun the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics
- noun any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation
Etymologies
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Examples
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The story does not introduce any of the special vocabulary of philosophy (not even the word ˜philosophy™ itself makes an appearance).
Philosophy for Children Pritchard, Michael 2009
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In a word, the philosophy which Neoplatonism represents, whose final interest is the religious, and whose highest object is the super-rational, must be a _philosophy of revelation_.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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_religion_, in the general acceptation of the term (philosophy of religion); and, thirdly, _philosophy_ itself, as the purest and most perfect form of the scientific knowledge of truth.
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He received a B.A. in philosophy and in physics from Columbia University in 1986, and an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1988.
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Unfortunately, someone with a doctorate in philosophy is often nothing more than a idiot undeserving of respect.
The Academic Job Market, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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One such is Thaddeus Kozinski, a doctor in philosophy from the Catholic University of America.
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She was also one of the pioneers of virtue ethics, a key development in philosophy from the 1970s onwards.
Philippa Foot obituary Jane O'Grady 2010
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Apart from a lot of monumental ideas, one thing I learned in philosophy is that — as interested in the subject as I am — I am highly unlikely to ever make an original contribution to my (former) field.
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Apart from a lot of monumental ideas, one thing I learned in philosophy is that — as interested in the subject as I am — I am highly unlikely to ever make an original contribution to my (former) field.
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AFTER THE UNFORGETTABLE DAY on which the Lead Without a Title philosophy was revealed to me, I never saw my mentor Tommy again.
The Leader Who Had No Title Robin Sharma 2010
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