Philo + Sophia = Philosophy

• The love for wisdom.

• Intellectual exercise concerned with the nature of reality from humans point of view.

• Deal with perennial problems of life.

• Enquiry into the issues emerging in human life.

• Revolving around social, political, moral, religious, racial, cultural, linguistic & economic spheres.

• Explicating the real meaning of life or goal of life.

• Rational discussions revolves around four perspectives; Metaphysical (Being), Epistemological (Theory of Knowledge), Ethical (Moral) & Religious (Believing in a Religion).

• Philosophy develops fascination for wisdom which is different from knowledge.

• Knowledge is acquired through sense organs & mind.

• Wisdom is obtained through the influence of the spirit called the self or soul.

• It starts with knowledge and then culminates in wisdom.

• A philosopher thinks sincerely, seriously & systematically.

• Life is full of mysteries, containing lot of miseries.

• Life is a journey between birth & death.

• A child is born, grows, marries, brings for offsprings and dies.

• The doubt remains as to what happens to the soul after death?

• How does a soul enter into the body before the birth?

• Why are we born?

• Why should we live?

• Why are there so many hurdles in life?

• How are we to overcome sufferings?

• What is the importance of material life?

• Is spiritual life superior to material life?

• What are permanence & Change? Why are they caused?

• How was the world created?

• Is there a super power called God?

• How is God related to the soul & the world?

• Is the soul one or many?

• What are appearance & reality?

• Philosophy digs deep to find answer to these questions through speculative reasoning.

• Philosophers develop their own answer in accordance to their intellectual calibre.

• One think refutes the other and come forward with his own view points.

• A philosopher inhales much more before exhaling, which means that a philosopher studies the environment in which he/she lives, the philosophical predicaments pronounced by the predecessors, the scriptures or literature available during the times to develop dialogue, discussions, arguments etc to sharpen the intellect before exhibiting his/her philosophical doctrines.

• Almost all philosophers both in the west and the east have declared that ignorance causes misery & the only remedy is to acquire wisdom.