Hist. Western philosophy appeared in Greece. The pral Greek philosophers were Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. The Greeks included everything that was known rationally in philosophy: logic, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, cosmology, psychology, politics, etc. These philosophers included all these sciences in their rationality, because they had the same point. The origin and evolution of man and the universe.
Having already understood; ¿What is it and why? Philosophy fences a few steps above, the word Philosophy is the set of two Greek voices. PHILIA = Love and SOPHIA = Wisdom; for which we can also say as a concept that Philosophy; it is the love of wisdom.
But what made these Greeks love wisdom was because they had a question and an answer based on that question. So philosophy was born of a question, but what would that question be?
Just as Philosophy is a question, it has also been a permanent response, in more than two thousand five hundred years of philosophy, the answers have varied a lot. The field these encompass is vast and still remains indeterminate. That is also why the concept of philosophy is indeterminate.
There is no single concept of philosophy, as there are many philosophers.
And then each Philosopher has his own Philosophy concept:
A. Concept of Socrates.- Considered a teacher of philosophy. He made man as a moral being at the center of philosophy, as the maximum wisdom that consisted in knowing oneself.
B. Plato's concept.- Philosophy is an activity in which we will be able to achieve real knowledge of the world, only through philosophy will we get to know the truth.
C. Concept of Aristotle .- It is the theoretical science of the first principles and the first causes of what is. For Aristotle, principle is what is first in being and first in knowing. In this sense, philosophy is the study of fundamentals.
D. Hegel's concept.- Philosophy is the effective knowledge of what it is (what it is, is everything that exists all there is). For Hegel, philosophy should not be love, enthusiasm, but should be the knowledge itself, the effective knowledge of reality.
E. Wittgenstein's concept.- Philosophy is an activity to dissolve false problems that are hidden in the language. (analytics)
F. Marx's concept.- It is an activity (praxis) for the transformation of the world, to make the revolution.
G. Concept of Heidegger.- Philosopher is the extraordinary asking about the extra-ordinary.
H. Concept of Husserl.- Philosophy is essentially the science of the true principles, of the origins, of the roots of all things. (phenomenology)
I. Descartes Concept.- It is the knowledge that finds out the principles of all sciences and as for the first philosophy and metaphysics deals with the ultimate truths.
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And just as Philosophy has its concepts, it also has its characteristics.
Rational - Intellect.- Because it is based on reason.
Methodical and orderly. - Because it uses methods to be able to face the totality of its subjects, and that its knowledge is not products of chance or luck. That is why the method of philosophy is reflexive.
Totalitarian.- It is that it studies the subjects, objects, in an integral, total way. Philosophy globalizes knowledge.
Critical.- It is submitted to the criticism that questions all things, therefore everything agrees to a question the "why" of each thing.
Deep and fundamental.- Because it is able to exist its conformation with the laws of thought with reality.
Problematic.- While the truth is not reached.
And so the Philosophers contributed a lot in reinforcing and maintaining Philosophy.
Now I will share with you some of the thoughts of these Philosophers.
Without more to refer me I say goodbye, thanking all those who spend a minute of their time to read this post.
Atte.
