What is philosophy? How can we think about philosophy?

Definition of philosophy: Philosophy is a general science with the whole world as its research object. Its basic task is to discover the general laws and regulations of the world and establish a systematic world outlook and methodology. It is the social practice of human understanding of the world and the concrete existence and expression of social consciousness.

The essence and characteristics of philosophy.

Philosophy is the theory of social practice of human understanding of the world. Philosophy, natural science and social science have the same laws, and they are all social practice activities for human beings to understand the world. Social practice is the essence and attribute of philosophy.

What is the world? The world is the unity of individual concrete things, concrete things are the concrete existence and expression of the world, the world is concrete things, and concrete things are the world.

The world or concrete things not only have shapes that people can feel, but also have various connections and laws that people can recognize. The world or specific things can be divided into two or more different kinds and components, and different kinds and components composed of two or more points can also be summarized as a unified specific thing and world.

The research object of natural science and social science is not the whole world, but only a part of the world. Taking the world as a whole and individuals as the research object and discovering the universal laws and rules of the world as its own responsibility is a remarkable feature that distinguishes philosophy from natural science and social science.

Philosophy is the existence and expression of social consciousness.

Social consciousness is the inevitable requirement, law, trend and law of society, and it is the intention, desire, consciousness, thought, desire, ideal, law and concept of social subjects in daily social life, social activities and social behavior.

Social consciousness is the content and essence of social practice, the commander-in-chief and soul of social practice, the existence and expression of social consciousness, and philosophy is the social practice of human understanding of the world. Therefore, philosophy is a concrete manifestation of social consciousness.

Marx publicly declared that his philosophy serves the liberation of the proletariat and the broad masses of the people and is the social consciousness of the proletariat.

Survival and development are the general provisions and contents of social consciousness, as well as human philosophy and social practice.

Why do humans carry out philosophical and social practice activities? Because survival and development are the innate general essence and regulations of human beings, the real world can not fully meet the needs of human survival and development. Only by carrying out social practice activities including philosophy, natural science and social science can human beings achieve the basic goal of survival and development. Human philosophical thinking and philosophical social practice are purposeful and planned behaviors, which contain social consciousness and rules.

Philosophy is a concrete thing or a part of the world.

Philosophy is human's social practice, social subject, the form and component of human existence, a relatively abstract thing existing in concrete things, a meta-entity containing meta-ontology, and an ordinary member of the unified world.

Philosophy is a knowledge with a long history, and people have many versions of the definition of philosophy.

The word "philosophy" was coined by Heraclitus, an ancient Greek, 2500 years ago. Its original meaning is "the pursuit of wisdom". /kloc-At the end of the 9th century, Japanese scholar NISHIAMANE translated the foreign language PHILOSOPHIA into Chinese Philosophy. Huang Zunxian introduced the word philosophy into China. There was no word "philosophy" in China cultural classics before the Qing Dynasty. The basic meaning of "philosophy" in Chinese is "wisdom", which is similar to the semantics of foreign language PHILOSOPHIA. PHILOSOPHIA, a foreign language, originally means "love wisdom", not the ontology of wisdom, and philosophy is manifested in the endless pursuit of wisdom.

After the introduction of western philosophy into China, there has been a debate about whether there is philosophy in China's local culture. People who think that China has philosophy define philosophy as: basic thinking about the universe and life.

Hu Shi pointed out in the Outline of the History of China's Philosophy: "Anyone who studies important issues in life should fundamentally seek important solutions." This kind of learning is called philosophy.

Feng Youlan mentioned his own philosophical definition in A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy: "It is the thought of systematic reflection on life".

Chinese and foreign philosophy originated from doubt and surprise. For example, Qu Yuan's Tian Wen said: Who passed it on in the early ancient times? The top and bottom are shapeless, how to test them? A whole poem, 158 questions, is full of surprises and doubts about the mysteries of cosmic life and ancient myths and legends. It is here that philosophers began their independent thinking and exploration. Moreover, surprise and doubt will always accompany the philosopher's meditation.

Philosophy is people's thinking and exploration of the essence, relevance and * * * of everything that can be thought of (whether true or false) driven by the desire for knowledge.

Einstein's definition of philosophy: If philosophy is understood as the pursuit of knowledge in the most universal and extensive form, then philosophy can obviously be regarded as the mother of all sciences.

Novalis (1772— 180 1), a famous German romantic poet and short-lived genius in the 8th century, defined philosophy as the mother of all sciences. The essence of philosophical activity is spiritual return, and any activity that seeks spiritual home everywhere with homesickness impulse can be called philosophy.

Philosophy is the interpretation of the ultimate meaning of the world, which makes us understand and rationalize the world in our consciousness, thus providing us with spiritual comfort.

Philosophy is a systematic and theoretical world outlook and methodology, which is a popular definition of philosophy now. This definition of philosophy is completely wrong.

What is a systematic and theoretical philosophical world outlook and methodology? Systematic philosophical world outlook and methodology are systematic philosophical theories. Define philosophy as a philosophical theory, and a donkey's head is not a horse's mouth.

Up to now, there are still many important scientific and cultural concepts that are vague in people's knowledge base and have no clear scientific definition. Social and cultural construction should attach importance to the discussion of basic concepts and basic theories.