Kanon Filsafat 19

 Introduction

This is a commentary on the points of information expressed in the video of "What is Philosophy" by the youtube channel Carneades.org. 

What is Philosophy

This shall be my own answer to the title of the video on What is Philosophy. This shall be my canonical answer on what is philosophy. First, philosophy is the study of the foundations or fundamental aspects of reality. This means philosophy, like biology and physics, is an academic study or a science. In fact it is the mother of all sciences. Philosophy studies the highest and lowest aspects of reality, or reality not as the sum of its parts but reality as reality itself. It is the study of the general principles of all reality and existence, and goes beyond physical reality. It is possible to study physical reality through a philosophical perspective, but it studies physical things in the perspective of philosophy, that is what their fundamental nature in relationship to the fundamental nature of reality.

For that matter, philosophy is also a body of knowledge, or the sum of knowledge obtained from that study. It is the collection of all knowledge and truths we have about the absolute and fundamental nature of reality. Philosophy is thus an abstract object which is not just an action or a created thing of humans, instead it is a thing which predates and is preexistent to humanity. It is an ancient object in the abstract reality, which actually governs all of reality and is what maintains the very fabric and structure of reality.

Yet, this leads to 2 different perspectives on what is philosophy. Philosophy is either the government of reality or it is man's perception on that government. The government of reality, aptly called "God" by most of mankind, is slowly discovered by Its citizens in a long process until the final moment where the citizen, that is man, receives a purer vision of government, that is of God. Thus in this sense, philosophy is God Himself. However, there is another view that philosophy is instead man's perception of God. Therefore, philosophy is essentially man, it is always man, and will never be God though it can be united to God.

According to the book "Philosophy for Everyone", philosophy is thinking about thinking. Here, philosophy is reduced to a more human standard, that is as activity or affecting. There are 2 senses in which philosophy is thinking about thinking, it is thinking about thinking proper and thinking about ideas. Philosophy is the evaluation of the process of thought, and is thus restricted to logic. However, philosophy as the thinking of ideas, is more broad and is thus the evaluation of ideas of anything and everything. For example, when we think about God, we think about the thinking of God. Is that thinking of God correct? Even more importantly, in thinking about thinking about correctness, is that thinking about correctness even correct?

Love of Wisdom

There are several meanings for the word love and wisdom. There is love as in attraction, which is more of liking than loving, and there is love as in the orientation to goodness, which is proper love. However, love in reality is both united, though greater emphasis on goodness. Wisdom also has 2 meanings, it is one sense the character of wisdom, the trait, virtue and quality a person can have, it is thus also a state. On the other hand, it is also the perfection of wisdom itself, which is in God or Christ.

Philosophy etymologically is the love of wisdom. It is thus either the love of the character of wisdom or the state of wisdom, or it is the love of the Perfection of Wisdom that is Christ, which is it? In truth it is both. Philosophy is the love of the unity of man and Wisdom which is the quality of wisdom. Why is philosophy the love of wisdom, and why do we not have Sophia Herself? It is because we can never truly be Wisdom, we can be wise, but we can not be Wisdom. As such we can only love Him, for we can never truly attain Him that is to be gone and be Him.

The Broadness of Philosophy

This is straightforward. As philosophy is the love of God, thinking about thinking, and the study of God, it will be broad. As all things fall under the category of reality and thus of God, all things will be included in the study of philosophy. It is thus very broad relative to other sciences.

The Uniqueness of Philosophy or The Branches of Philosophy

It is in its broadness that philosophy has parts unique to it. While all sciences stem from philosophy, there are divisions or sciences which are strictly philosophical, these are in my own interpretation, metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, in that particular order. These are the proper foundations to all knowledge in this reality. Metaphysics is the study of what reality is. Epistemology, which includes logic in it, is the study of the study of what reality is. Finally, ethics is the study of what to do.

Philosophy as a Bridge

Philosophy acts as a bridge between different sciences, thus we have philosophy of physics, philosophy of biology, philosophy of computer science, philosophy of mathematics, and many other philosophies. The particular or applied philosophies are bridges with first philosophy proper, and then that communicates with other bridges that is the other applied philosophies. Thus that is so.


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