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06-08-2002, 02:00 PM | #11 |
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Philosophy (as a process) is a search for understanding. Its result is a statement of what we think we understand.
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Well done Laurentius
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I once read a philosophy instructor say philosophy is "thought engineering." Makes sense to me.
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I think Stephen Hawkings said philosophy was just the rearrangment of language or words. Or something to that effect.
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What do you think of the following: Philosophy an interrelationship between the following points: ___(a) a social activity, an individual urge and an intellectual process ___(b) characterized by a specific method ___(c) of understanding the reality as whole and its fundamental principles ___(d) unified into a rationally and linguistically ideal system ___(e) influencing human behaviors, attitudes and actions. There are as many philosophies as philosophers and none of them is right or wrong in the long run. AVE |
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