What did the philosophers of the Enlightenment seek to understand?
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Can the word 'philosophy' only be defined as a basket of inter-related subjects, so that the only substance of the basket itself is the mere word (sound, ink marks) 'philosophy'? Or is there an essence of philosophy? Is it clear what the words 'Philosophy is the love of wisdom' might be used to mean? Here is one possibility: Philosophy is love of wisdom in logic, ethics, and metaphysics.
But note that Greek wisdom is rational, and so maybe the following could serve as a definition of the specifically Greek project in thought: Philosophy is the rational investigation of logic, ethics, and metaphysics.
In other words, Philosophy is philosophizing -- seeking to understand our experience of the world, namely our life (Ethics), thought (Logic), and all of reality (Metaphysics), as best we can, by the light of natural reason alone.
The rather vague definition 'love of wisdom' comes from the origin and etymology of the Greek word 'philosophy': philo ("love") and sophia("wisdom"). According to an ancient tradition Pythagoras of Croton coined the Greek word meaning 'lover of wisdom' (philosopher) to contrast with 'wise man' (sophist), saying of himself that he was only the first, not the second. And the example of Socrates -- namely that he did not think himself wise when he was not, that he did not think he knew what he did not -- further suggests that it was modesty invented the word'philosopher', from whence the word 'philosophy'.
Note that the English word 'wisdom' is not always an appropriate renderingof the Greek word 'sophia'. For example we do not call a shoemaker's knowledge of shoemaking wisdom although Socrates in Plato's Apology calls it that.
Query: another name for love of wisdom.
The word 'philosophy' doesn't spring to mind, does it, unless one already knows the etymology of that word.
Can the word 'philosophy' only be defined as a basket of inter-related subjects, so that the only substance of the basket itself is the mere word (sound, ink marks) 'philosophy'? Or is there an essence of philosophy? Is it clear what the words 'Philosophy is the love of wisdom' might be used to mean? Here is one possibility: Philosophy is love of wisdom in logic, ethics, and metaphysics.
But note that Greek wisdom is rational, and so maybe the following could serve as a definition of the specifically Greek project in thought: Philosophy is the rational investigation of logic, ethics, and metaphysics.
In other words, Philosophy is philosophizing -- seeking to understand our experience of the world, namely our life (Ethics), thought (Logic), and all of reality (Metaphysics), as best we can, by the light of natural reason alone.
The rather vague definition 'love of wisdom' comes from the origin and etymology of the Greek word 'philosophy': philo ("love") and sophia("wisdom"). According to an ancient tradition Pythagoras of Croton coined the Greek word meaning 'lover of wisdom' (philosopher) to contrast with 'wise man' (sophist), saying of himself that he was only the first, not the second. And the example of Socrates -- namely that he did not think himself wise when he was not, that he did not think he knew what he did not -- further suggests that it was modesty invented the word'philosopher', from whence the word 'philosophy'.
Note that the English word 'wisdom' is not always an appropriate renderingof the Greek word 'sophia'. For example we do not call a shoemaker's knowledge of shoemaking wisdom although Socrates in Plato's Apology calls it that.
Query: another name for love of wisdom.
The word 'philosophy' doesn't spring to mind, does it, unless one already knows the etymology of that word.
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The philosophers of the enlightenment are the people who really valued science, liberty, reason, religious tolerance, property and what they termed as natural natural rights such as life. Some of the philosophers of enlightenment are john lock, Jean Jackies Rousseau and Charles Montesquie. All these philosophers came up with theories that all or some of the governments will use to govern their people.
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