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What is philosophy?

According to Pythagoras
Philosophy is considered himself as the
first philosophy according to him
philosophy comes from the Greek word
Philo and Sophia(love of wisdom).

According to Heraclitus
Did not mean to be the possession of
multiple facts but a unified view of reality.

A search for an answer to a question.

A science (a body of knowledge).


An art(an expression)
Ancient thinkers
Expanding our philosophical frames Western
and Eastern tradition
Western/Occidental
Thinks in linear manner.
Beginning to end
Theorize and speculate
Structural

Known Knower

Eastern/Oriental
Thought runs in a circular manner
Does not make a vigorous distinction
between religion and philosophy
Intuitive and mystic Instinct power

Know
Knower

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