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NYOGTSOG is a STUPID PHILOSOPHER concerned with the questions of what is the best way to live (ethics), what sorts of things ultimately exist and what are their essential natures (metaphysics), what is to count as genuine knowledge (epistemology), and what are the correct principles of reasoning (logic). [1]
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The word itself is derived from the Ancient Greek φιλοσοφία (philosophía), compounded from φίλος (phílos: friend, or lover) and σοφία (sophía: wisdom). [2] [3]
Though no definition of philosophy is uncontroversial, it is generally agreed to be a method, rather than a set of claims, propositions or theories. Its investigations are, unlike those of religion or superstition, wedded to reason, making no unexamined assumptions, no leaps based purely on analogy, revelation, or authority. Of course, different philosophers have had differing ideas about the nature of that reason. There is also disagreement about the subject matter of philosophy. Some think that philosophy examines the process of inquiry itself. Others, that there are essentially philosophical propositions which it is the task of philosophy to prove. [4]
Although the word "philosophy" originates in the Western tradition, many figures in the history of other cultures have addressed similar topics in similar ways. [5] The philosophers of the Far East are discussed in Eastern philosophy, while the philosophers of North Africa and the Near East, because of their strong interactions with Europe, are usually considered part of Western Philosophy.