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What is Philosophy?

Philosophy is derived from noun (philia) Sophia that means Love of wisdom . And philosophy means The academic study of anything .

Study that attempting to gain the broadest and fundamental knowledge of world and its existence .

It includes everything in the world . Nature, Morality , Beauty , Social organization

The content available for philosophy is both deep and broad . So its very for philosophers to rule on everything , Whereas other discipline allows basic and specific assumptions but on the other hands philosophers are not bound by this assumptions .

Historical origin of philosophy

The historical origins of philosophical thinking and exploration vary around the globe.

. But the earliest Greek philosophers were not known as philosophers; they were simply known as sages. The sage tradition provides an early glimpse of philosophical thought in action. Sages are sometimes associated with mathematical and scientific discoveries and at other times with their political impact.




Source of Evidence

Philosophy isnt a empirical science . Philosophies require some strong evidence and philosophers ought to make these evidence they claims must show reasons to prove

Some of the type of source of evidence is this .

History

Most of the important source of evidence in philosophy is history , As we haven seen philosophical

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René Descartes known for? René Descartes is most commonly known for his philosophical statement, “I think, therefore I am” (originally in French, but best known by its Latin translation: "Cogito, ergo sum”).

It later appeared in Latin in his Principles of Philosophy, and a similar phrase also featured prominently in his Meditations on First Philosophy. The dictum is also sometimes referred to as the cogito.[2] As Descartes explained in a margin note, "we cannot doubt of our existence while we doubt." In the posthumously published The Search for Truth by Natural Light, he expressed this insight as dubito, ergo sum, vel, quod idem est, cogito, ergo sum ("I doubt, therefore I am — or what is the same