Philosophy
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- "Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach on the province of grammarians, and to engage in disputes of words, while they imagine they are handling controversies of the deepest importance and concern." - David Hume
- An academic discipline that is often divided into five major branches: logic; metaphysics; epistemology; ethics; and aesthetics.
- A comprehensive system of belief.
- A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
- a philosophy of government
- a philosophy of education
- A general principle (usually moral).
Philosophy is the discipline concerned with questions of how one should live (ethics); what sorts of things exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics); what counts as genuine knowledge (epistemology); and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic).
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See also
- Anti-philosophy
- 20th century philosophy
- Continental philosophy
- Philosophy of language
- Desiring-production
- Twentieth-century French philosophy
- Theory
- Western philosophy
- Postmodern philosophy
- Haecceity
- Process philosophy
- Philosophy and literature
- Philosophy and film
- Kant and Sade: The Ideal Couple by Zizek
- Philosophy in the Bedroom by Sade
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