I have to say that I am learning a little bit of what philosophy means now. In order to understand philosophy, we must ask ourselves what the word means. Philosophy is dealing with the term phila, which mean brotherhood; brotherly love; fellowship, and the term sophia means wisdom. Together, it means a love of fellowship with wisdom or fellowship with wisdom. (Something like that; that you discussed in class.) Philosophy also means "The investigation of ones' self and the world around one in persuit of wisdom." ("knowledge of how and when to act"), which you also discussed.
Many philosophers started out by making questions of philosophy. This allows us to make philosophical questions, which is part of our homework assignment. I started out with some simple ones like what is a person? and what is a friend?. Then I started with a little complex ones. For example, What is love? What is friendship? What is faimly? What is the relationship between them? What is the difference between them? In class, I heard some interesting philosophical questions, one of them was "How much does a person's perception of me help create myself identity?" (Something like that.) But how do we know about that. Is there an answer to that question or does it lead to more questions. In class, we also talked about what is a philosophical and nonphilosophical question. Well, this is what I wrote : A nonphilosophical question is a everyday question, which we already know the answer to. A philosophical question is we need to research to find out the answer to.
Some people gave some answers to the nonphilosophical and philosohhical question. I found this one interesting: "nonphilosophical has an answer (eventually), but philosophical just leads to more questions. I found that part true for me because we will found out the answer soon enough and some philosophical question does lead to more questions.
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