RE: A Book?
May 19, 2009 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: May 19, 2009 at 10:52 am by g-mark.)
Mr Hayter Wrote:There are no "observations" in the philosophy camp though. Philosophy is pretty much the study of thinking; i doesn't rely on fact, it relies on reasoning. Philosophy doesn't stray into the land of science, and science doesn't stray into the land of philosophy!
Philosophy:
Derived from the Greek words Philo (friend) and sophia (wisdom). Therefore, a philosopher is a friend of wisdom. In ancient Greek it meant something like curious.
As all science once started a philisophical subjects and evloved into their own diciplines, you can say that science and philosophy are comparably to one another.The usage of the word 'phoilosophy' survives in the in the award of the degree of PH.D - Doctor of Philosophy.
As physics, biology, sociology, and the rest began their lives as philisophical thought, we can say they do stray together. Scientist today must first think up or observe the ideas, think about them some more, put them into words, write them down, then test them. The thought process is the first part of the equation, and the most important.
To be a good philosopher, you must have a varied and wide knowledge of many subjects to understand important issues and be able to reason through them properly. If you have incomplete or unsatisfactory knowledge your reasoning will be flawed and incomplete.
Plato Wrote:a constant passion for any knowledge that will reveal to them something of that reality which endures for ever and is not always passing into and out of existence. And, we may add, their deire is to know the whole of that reality; they will not willingly renounce any part of it as relatively small and insignificant.....