#philosophy #mind #epistemology #knowledge #wisdom #intelligence #compound-knowledge # [[Epistemic status]] #schroedinger-uncertain # Related [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge]] # Philosophy ![[Pasted image 20210530221029.png|50x300]] Philosophy begets science. **Philosophy** is the most important and foundational topic, it defines how we acquire [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]], how we compute and process the world. Roughly speaking, knowledge is **epistemologically primitive**: philosophy can't be skipped, to know how the world is processed, we need a concrete [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]]. **Philosophy** covers all that, and more, such as **Epistemology**, meta- [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]], logic, mathematics, geometry, physics, social concepts, etc. By studying **philosophy**, we generalize our thoughts and concepts, we don't preserve our model of the world from Plato to Kant, we transform it. **Philosophy** is not a body of doctrine but an activity, like arithmetic, or writing; a discipline which produces fruits, like the other arts. I may be influenced by the [[Availability bias]], I hope not, exposing myself to other forms of [[Information]] should sort out the true from the false. >The classification of **philosophies** is effected, as a rule, either by their methods or by their results: 'empirical' and 'a priori' is a classification by methods, 'realist' and 'idealist' is a classification by results. An attempt to classify [[Bergson]]'s **philosophy** in either of these ways is hardly likely to be successful, since it cuts across all the recognized divisions. > >But there is another way of classifying **philosophies**, less precise, but perhaps more helpful to the non-**philosophical**; in this way, the principle of division is according to the predominant desire which has led the [[Philosopher]] to **philosophize**. Thus we shall have **philosophies** of feeling. inspired by the love of [[Happiness]]; theoretical **philosophies**, inspired by the love of [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]]; and practical **philosophies**, inspired by the love of action. >~ [[Bertrand Russell]] Philosophy is a sort of battle between the known and the unknown, between the adult and the child, the old and the new, the rational and the emotional, the revealer and the concealed, the conscious and the unconscious. # Love of [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] ## Methods ### [[Skepticism]] ### [[Empiricism]] ### [[Rationalism]] ## Unclassified ### [[Idealism]] ### [[Scholasticism]] # Love of [[Emotion]] ## Methods ### [[Orphism]] ### [[Bacchism]] ### [[Epicureanism]] ### [[Buddhism]] ### [[Nihilism]] ### [[Philosophy/Romanticism/Romanticism|Romantocism]] # Love of action #todo define action >Be a philosopher, but amidst your **philosophy**, be a man ~ [[Hume]] ## Methods ### [[Stoicism]] ### [[Confusianism]] ### [[Taoism]] ### [[Liberalism]] # Philosophy is the ultimate purpose of life >Without mus..**philosophy**, life would be a mistake ~ [[Nietzsche]] >Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for **philosophy**, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs. All the years that have passed before them are added to their own. ~ [[Seneca]] Ultimately, our inquiry of [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]] is unlimited, we will likely never reach maximal [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]], it is impossible, the universe will die before, [[Big crunch]]. Should we jump off from this infinite treadmill that is the quest of the acquisition of [[Philosophy/Epistemology/Knowledge|knowledge]]? Or is it the purpose of life? If then, the search for [[Compound Knowledge]] is the most fulfilling one, that is **philosophy**, [[Mathematic]], [[Physic]], [[Biology]]. >To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that **philosophy**, in our age, can still do for those who study it. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] >My purpose is to exhibit **philosophy** as an integral part of social and political life: not as the isolated speculations of remarkable individuals, but as both an effect and a cause of the character of the various communities in which different systems flourished. ~ [[Bertrand Russell]] >**Philosophy** is not one of the natural [[Science|sciences]]. (The word '**philosophy**' must mean something which stands above or below, but not beside the natural [[Science|sciences]].) The object of **philosophy** is the logical clarification of thoughts. **Philosophy** is not a theory but an activity. A **philosophical** work consists essentially of elucidations. The result of **philosophy** is not a number of '**philosophical** propositions,' but to make propositions clear. **Philosophy** should make clear and delimit sharply the thoughts which otherwise are, as it were, opaque and blurred ~ [[Wittgenstein]] **Philosophy** is [[Mathematic]] for words. >What a lot of trouble one avoids if one refuses to have anything to do with the common herd! To have no job, to devote one's time to literature, is the most wonderful thing in the world. ~ [[Cicero]]