The Collaborative International Dictionary
Philosophy \Phi*los"o*phy\ (f[i^]*l[o^]s"[-o]*f[y^]), n.; pl. Philosophies (f[i^]*l[o^]s"[-o]*f[i^]z). [OE. philosophie, F. philosophie, L. philosophia, from Gr. filosofi`a. See Philosopher.]
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Literally, the love of, inducing the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
Note: When applied to any particular department of knowledge, philosophy denotes the general laws or principles under which all the subordinate phenomena or facts relating to that subject are comprehended. Thus philosophy, when applied to God and the divine government, is called theology; when applied to material objects, it is called physics; when it treats of man, it is called anthropology and psychology, with which are connected logic and ethics; when it treats of the necessary conceptions and relations by which philosophy is possible, it is called metaphysics.
Note: ``Philosophy has been defined: -- the science of things divine and human, and the causes in which they are contained; -- the science of effects by their causes; -- the science of sufficient reasons; -- the science of things possible, inasmuch as they are possible; -- the science of things evidently deduced from first principles; -- the science of truths sensible and abstract; -- the application of reason to its legitimate objects; -- the science of the relations of all knowledge to the necessary ends of human reason; -- the science of the original form of the ego, or mental self; -- the science of science; -- the science of the absolute; -- the science of the absolute indifference of the ideal and real.''
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A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
[Books] of Aristotle and his philosophie.
--Chaucer.We shall in vain interpret their words by the notions of our philosophy and the doctrines in our school.
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Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
Then had he spent all his philosophy.
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Reasoning; argumentation.
Of good and evil much they argued then, . . . Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
--Milton. The course of sciences read in the schools.
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A treatise on philosophy.
Philosophy of the Academy, that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy.
Philosophy of the Garden, that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens.
Philosophy of the Lyceum, that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered his lectures in the Lyceum at Athens.
Philosophy of the Porch, that of Zeno and the Stoics; -- so called because Zeno of Citium and his successors taught in the porch of the Poicile, a great hall in Athens.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of philosophy English)
Usage examples of "philosophies".
It may indeed be in line with your world’s philosophies, but I still feel the Federation has a great deal to offer you.
We are an organization that honors individual philosophies and ways of life, banding together out of no other motivation than mutual protection, and sharing in the wonders of each other’s cultures.
But we have learned that such philosophies pale in comparison to people who have the will and the dedication to annihilate their neighbors without cause, without pity, without mercy.
Not only that, but the advent of plasers put a further crimp in the philosophies of the “techies,” who still advocated that technology was the wave of the future for Yakaba.
Whereas Hauman had been fully cognizant of the tragedy surrounding Corinder’s betrayal of their mutual live-and-let-live philosophies, the young Makkusians saw nothing except an opportunity to show a neighboring world that Makkus was nobody’s target.
Not only that, but the advent of plasers put a further crimp in the philosophies of the "teenies,"
A life of adventure, of experiencing minds and philosophies beyond what I have here.
Now are you going to stand there debating philosophies and moralities and rights and wrongs?
He had been besieged with philosophies he did not agree with and concepts he could not understand.
You proclaim your loyalty to Klingon ideals…yet your proposed wife, and the woman who would act as mother to your child, has philosophies that are as far from ours as they could possibly be.
Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche pointed out in Shambhala that the essential and background idea pervading all of the philosophies of the East, from India to Tibet to China, lying behind everything from Shintoism to Taoism, is "a hierarchy of earth, human, heaven," which he also pointed out is equivalent to "body, mind, spirit.
Both Kant, and to a much greater extent Fichte, were trying to reintroduce an Ascending and antileveling current into the flatland ontology, and this is why the impact of their philosophies was always described in terms like "exhilarating" freedom is always in the Ascending current, but the agonizing dilemma remained for them both: how to integrate this with the Descending and manifest world, for without that integration Ascent is always, we have seen, bought at the price of repression: Eros degenerates into Phobos.
How many times have you held up our ways, our philosophies, as something to be lampooned?