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What is philosophy? I am not memeing, I never really bothered thinking about it before. Ethics? Morals? Guidelines for living? It seems like everything regarding the subject is chronological since philosophers always talk about other philosophers, but do you really have to start with the Greeks? I guess I'm just looking for anything to give me a decent understanding on the subject itself.

>> No.17934371

>>17934365
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfD3X3f5C_w

>> No.17934383

>>17934365
It’s a meme anon

>> No.17934444

>>17934365
Philosophy is just logic, a chain of premises that lead to conclusions.

>> No.17934451

>>17934371
Thanks, that was an interesting watch. I should reflect on myself more
>>17934444
checked

>> No.17934459

Philosophy is about answering that question.

>> No.17934476

This is my opinion...which happens to be the only correct opinion.

Philosophy arises due to the ambiguity of our language. What is "good?" Well, philosophers have much to say about the definition of "good" and "evil."

Philosophers lay the foundation for how we think about the world. They are concerned with the foundational definitions from which all logical thought emerges.

Philosophers work at the most rudimentary level of thought. This is why philosophy is full of arguments. Just like there are many arguments about the foundations of pretty much anything.

>> No.17934498

>>17934444
>Philosophy is just logic
If philosophy was simply logic, it would be called Logic.

>> No.17934550

>>17934365
Philosophy is the love of knowledge.
It is the science of the gaps, pretty much every scientific field originated in philosophy, but can still be considered part of Philosophy, despite being distinguished beyond it also.
I associate Philosophy with the part that is not objective, not a mere description, but also and primarily engages with the subjective and what ought to be, and from there on follow associations with linguistics, semiotics, epistemology, ethics, logic.
The "correct" meaning of a word, the "correct" conduct, "true/correct" knowledge vs. pseudoscience/opinion, and the correctness of correctness itself

>> No.17934557

The love of knowledge

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17934722

>>17934365
Philosophy is the name we gave to the action of relating the ideas you have available. That's it. Every philosophy is just a different manner of relating certain ideas, and different philosophies have different names regardingnwhat ideas are being related and in which manner they are related.

>> No.17934957

Philosophy literally means love of knowledge, so really anything you want it to be as long as it is based on the principle of increasing your knowledge.

>> No.17934973

>>17934550
>It is the science of the gaps
i like that laugh

>> No.17934984

>>17934365
Its the first baby steps of a civilization towards science.
Today it has been perverted into a tool to justify taking political power by force or subversion.

>> No.17935013

>>17934365
>I am not memeing
A memer would say that.

History of Philosophy
Logic
Epistemology
Metaphysics

>> No.17935016

>>17934365
Thinking about thinking

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17935021

>>17934444
dem quads

>> No.17935044

>>17934365
Isn't this the PNK tranny?

>> No.17935082

>>17934550
Pretty much. Philosophy is concerned with that which remains in doubt after all your needs for information and logic have been satisfied. It is the ambitious idea to transpose diffuse reality and nameless experience into clarity, acceptable judgement and absolute truth. It starts when one asks themselves: But what does it mean? Why is it important? Is it good?

>> No.17935098

>>17934365
The fact that you're calling philosophy only
>ethics, morals, guides for living
To me is a sign that whatever it was suppo
>>17934550
>Philosophy is the love of knowledge.
falling for the nominalism meme again. Many such cases in /lit/. Sad!

>> No.17935106

>>17935098
I don't know what nominalism is. How would you define philosophy?

>> No.17935115

>>17935106
Not him but >>17934722

>> No.17935134

>>17934365
>What is philosophy?
Whining about reactionaries and white people on twitter.

>> No.17935146

>>17934722
No, that's what a textbook does.

>> No.17935147

>>17934365
Academic Philosophy is primarily split among two schools of thought that rarely interact: Continental (lead by the French) and Analytic (lead by the British and Americans).

Analytic philosophy is further rigidly divided up into disciplines (Philosophies of): Ethics, Political, Mind, Epistemology, Logic, Science, History, Metaphysics, etc. All aim at finding truths that cannot be found through empirical science.

Continental philosophy is largely concerned with social criticism and enjoying the status of being a public intellectual in societies where such people are still valued.

>> No.17935165

>>17935146
And where do the ideas of a textbook come from? The ether? What is philosophy if not the name we gave to the relation of ideas?

>> No.17935188

>>17935106
Simply put, nominalism ia the tendency to follow the latin saying "nomen omen" to the extreme

>> No.17935221

The pursuit of truth and beauty through love.

>> No.17935261

>>17934365
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Is_Philosophy%3F_(Deleuze_and_Guattari_book)

>> No.17936536

>>17935261
Yes, some French obscurantist nonsense is surely the best place for OP to start in his pursuit of understanding.

>> No.17937336

>>17934498
The premises it accepts as true or valid at first define its sense, then it's all logic

>> No.17937347

>>17934365
>What is philosophy?
What Husserl did.