What is Philosophy?
It is because they care
The term "philosophy" means, "love
of wisdom." In a comprehensive manner,
philosophy is an activity people undertake
when they seek to understand essential truths
about themselves, the world they lived in, and
their relationships to the world and to each
other. Studying philosophy would make
people continually engaged in asking,
answering, and arguing for their answers to
life’s most basic questions.
Source:
https://philosophy.fsu.edu/undergraduate-
study/why-philosophy/What-is-Philosophy
Philosophy is the discipline that looks
for reasoned answers to certain very abstract
questions, usually left unasked in everyday
life, about the nature of the universe and the
place in it of humans and everything
distinctively human. These are questions that
the sciences usually do not tackle, though it
may in the end turn out that scientific
discoveries are relevant to answering them.
Philosophers are not satisfied with
just any old answers to these questions; for
example, they don’t just want answers that
feel good. They want the answers to their
questions that are likeliest to be true, all
things considered.
about truth that philosophers throughout
history have spent nearly all their time
analyzing and evaluating arguments for and
against different views.
The centrality to philosophy of
reasoned debate is part of what makes the
study of philosophy valuable: it cultivates
various abilities that are prized in a wide
variety of careers—to disentangle
complexity, to find the flaws in arguments,
and to write and speak in an organized and
persuasive way.
Source:
https://philosophy.missouri.edu/undergrad/
what-philosophy
Philosophy is a way of thinking about
certain subjects such as ethics, thought,
existence, time, meaning and value. That
'way of thinking' involves 4 Rs:
responsiveness, reflection, reason and re-
evaluation. The aim is to deepen
understanding. The hope is that by doing
philosophy we learn to think better, to act
more wisely, and thereby help to improve the
quality of all our lives.
Source: https://www.philosophy-
foundation.org/what-is-philosophy