Sailesh asked:

I want to know the meaning of philosophy, but in few lines.

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So do I. But here's a sound-bite for you: philosophy is theattitudein which we attempt to actively
investigateanything,where "anything" includes the assumptions we employ in our investigation.

Another: philosophy is the activity of thinking as clearly as possible, and the investigation of the
attainment of that activity. Another: philosophy is the rational pursuit of any sort of knowledge.
Another: philosophy is the investigation of meaning, including the investigation of the meaning of the
investigation of meaning.

If you want to do philosophy, in my very strong opinion, you must be prepared to be extremely upset,
dismayed, anxious... because you will be — and should be — investigating, among other things,your
ownassumptions about everything. If doing philosophy does not upset you at least part of the time,
you're not doing it properly. Further, if you do not, as a result of your investigations, change most, if
not all, of those assumptions, you have not done it properly.

Steven Ravett Brown

The word says what it means: love (as in friendship) of wisdom (which is not the same as knowledge,
but a discernment (Greek: diorasis) in terms of it.)

Matthew Del Nevo

www.sicetnon.com

I once said in a radio interview (off the top of my head) "Philosophy is the use of reason and logic to
determine the nature of reality — but whether that can be done is itself a question of philosophy!"

According to my former student Brian Tee, in his Introduction to Philosophy class which I have been
attending this term, "Philosophy investigates the problems that arise when we think about our relation
to the world." Give it a while to sink in, and I think you will find that's a pretty powerful definition of
philosophy.

Geoffrey Klempner