RE: Most philosophers are atheist.
November 5, 2017 at 2:13 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2017 at 2:14 am by Edwardo Piet.)
The etymology of philosophy: The "Phil" part comes from "Phila" or love and the "sophy" part comes from "Sophia" or "wisdom" in ancient Greece. Etymologically philosophy means "the love of wisdom".
What philosophy developed into is it's pretty much questioning the fundamental concepts of anything. You can question the fundamentals about science and have the philosophy of science, you can apply fundamental questioning to politics and have the philosophy of politics. You can have philosophy of mind. By questioning the fundamentals of mind.
You can apply fundamental questioning to anything . . . even philosophy itself, which is known as metaphilosophy. But the two main fields of philosophy are epistemology and metaphysics. Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge and it asks "What, if anything, can we know?" and metaphysics is the study of existence, what things are made of, and the differences between essence and existence, and how everything fits together. Ontology being the largest subfield of metaphysics which deals specifically with questions of being.
My personal favorite field of philosophy is phenomenology which is kind of half way between science and philosophy. Phenomenology is the study of experience and the world of phenomena. It would be like studying what it's like to experience playing a game of chess, as opposed to studying chess. That would be the phenomenology of chess. For example.
Just off the top of my head.
What philosophy developed into is it's pretty much questioning the fundamental concepts of anything. You can question the fundamentals about science and have the philosophy of science, you can apply fundamental questioning to politics and have the philosophy of politics. You can have philosophy of mind. By questioning the fundamentals of mind.
You can apply fundamental questioning to anything . . . even philosophy itself, which is known as metaphilosophy. But the two main fields of philosophy are epistemology and metaphysics. Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge and it asks "What, if anything, can we know?" and metaphysics is the study of existence, what things are made of, and the differences between essence and existence, and how everything fits together. Ontology being the largest subfield of metaphysics which deals specifically with questions of being.
My personal favorite field of philosophy is phenomenology which is kind of half way between science and philosophy. Phenomenology is the study of experience and the world of phenomena. It would be like studying what it's like to experience playing a game of chess, as opposed to studying chess. That would be the phenomenology of chess. For example.
Just off the top of my head.
