The nature of philosophy can be defined in many ways. The literal meaning according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, is the love of wisdom. Philosophy can also be defined as the, "ultimate reality, causes and principles underlying being and thinking" ("Philosophy" 2213). Philosophy requires thinking that is beyond the normal level of the average human mind. It requires a knowledge and an understanding of the world around us. Philosophy helps to answer questions that has puzzled the minds of people for years. Those people who are knowledgeable enough and who have the will and desire to answer these puzzling questions, are called Philosophers. A challenging concept that philosophers have pondered about, is that of emotions. Emotions is a term commonly and loosely used to denote individual, subjective feelings which indicate moods ("emotions" 899). .
Logic, Natural Philosophy, Ethics, Poetics and Metaphysics are some various subjects in Philosophy. Metaphysics is about being, which breaks down into the science of being called Ontology and epistemology which concerns truth or the knowing of things as they are. Natural Philosophy which is the study of moveable things breaks into Cosmology and Philosophical Psychology, both dealing with movement. Cosmology states that non-living things are moveable by an outside force. Philosophical Psychology is the study of philosophical issues related to psychology, including the body-mind .
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problem, the nature of consciousness, the place of values in human life, the meaning of existence, and the nature and limits of scientific method ("Philosophical Pyschology" 720). .
Emotions fall under the subject of Philosophical Psychology with regards to why people have emotions such as love, hate, happiness and saddness. Before the problem of emotions can be solved, Warren Shibles, author of the book Emotions, states that it must first be determined what an emotion is.
For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocritical, and skeptical. I believe that human life is valued less than it should be, that it does have a meaning. ...
The "stand-still" philosophies of the Waknuks, and the "move-on" philosophies of the Sealanders caused destruction of families, emotions, and even lives, leaving the Fringes people tied up inside of this tangled web. ... (Wyndham, 18) The "stand-still" philosophies of the Waknuks, and the "move-on" philosophies of the Sealanders caused destruction of families, emotions, and even lives, leaving the Fringes people tied up in the middle of this tangled web. ...
The literary creed of Aestheticism was much in fashion at the times of Oscar Wilde and he fully embraced its philosophy of the central importance of art in life. The Aesthetic Movement encompassed the visual arts,the decorative arts and literature. "Art for art's sake implies the autonomy of art and...
The literary creed of Aestheticism was much in fashion at the times of Oscar Wilde and he fully embraced its philosophy of the central importance of art in life. The Aesthetic Movement encompassed the visual arts,the decorative arts and literature. "Art for art's sake implies the autonomy of art and...