It’s sort of the study of ideas and thoughts. It’s like science in that it uses reason to understand the world, but you don’t do experiments.
Most universities offer degree courses in philosophy. I gather it’s a fun subject in which the students stay up all night drinking and arguing about whether they all REALLY see the same colour when they look at a blue sky.
“Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language.[1][2] It is distinguished from other ways of addressing fundamental questions (such as mysticism, myth, or the arts) by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational argument”
Questions like:
What is the meaning of life?
Do we exist?
etc.
Philosophy looks at what we, as humans, think about, so for example, things like: what’s right and wrong, politics, the nature of space and time, what it is to be a person rather than just an animal, how we have properties, whether there is a God, etc. In general it involves the making arguments and then… well, pulling them apart really heh.
(sorry, i copied my answer from the one i gave to sidiq) I think of philosophy as the way in which we try to understand the world. For example, i try to understand what I observe in biology in terms of how it has evolved, but maybe the theory of evolution is wrong (there’s no evidence that its wrong yet) and there is a different explanation for the diversity of life. philosophy is really important for science to think about what makes you interpret your results how you do.
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