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Etymological meaning of Philosophy

The word Philosophy's origin is  Greek word 'Philosophia'. Philosophia means 'love of knowledge', 'pursuit of wisdom', 'systematic investigation. English word 'Philosophy' comes from a combination of two Greek word, which are 'Philo' and 'Sophia'. 'Philo' means 'love' and 'sophia' means 'wisdom'.But here arise a question of our mind that what is wisdom? Here I will say shortly, wisdom is not similar meaning of knowledge. It is broader concept than knowledge. Therefor the literal meaning of philosophy is 'love of wisdom'.

              If  a man, who is thirsty for knowledge, he is philosopher. A true philosopher is he who loves to know, who loves to search truth. If we turn our attention to different philosopher's quotation, we shall understand clearly its meaning.
              The Greek philosopher Socrate said - "Philosopher is one, who has a thirst for knowledge."
              Plato in his book (Republic) too said " He who has a taste for every sort of knowledge and who is curious to learn and is never satisfied may be justify termed a philosopher."
              Few philosophers think that - Every Rational person is philosopher. Because every rational person has many philosophical question i.e who am I? where have from I come? what will after death? what is life? who has created the world? etc. Everybody wants to get answer of these question.
                                                                     
                         So we may say in the perspective of the above discussion that "He is philosopher who is insatiable thirst for knowledge and his thinking, working is philosophy." 




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