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What is philosophy? This question's answer, we will not get any particular definition given by the philosophers. Because different philosophers have given different definitions of philosophy and these philosophers have described different aspect of philosophy given by their definition. If we analyse these various definition, then we will get to see that these definitions mainly five types. Some examples of these five types of definitions of philosophy are as follows:

>>Type: A) Philosophy is a love of knowledge - Examples of this type of definitions are as follows :
  • According to Greek philosopher Socrate : "Philosopher is one who has a thirst for knowledge."
  • According to Plato : "A real philosopher is one who has an interest for every kind of knowledge who is never satisfied."
  • According to Humayun Kabir : Philosophy "seeks to give knowledge of the whole."

         >>Type: B) Philosophy is an art as well as science - Examples of this type of definitions are as follows:
        • According to Francis Bacon an english philosopher considered philosophy as "the 'great' mother of all science."
        • According to Cicero, Marcus Tullius : "Philosophy is the mother of all arts and "the true medicine of mind."
        • According to Aristotle : Philosophy is a science which discovers the real nature of supernatural elements"
        • Kent regards philosophy as "the science and criticism of cognition."
        • According to Fichte : "Philosophy is the science of knowledge."
        • Coleridge, Samuel Taylor defines it as the "science of science."
        • According to Herbert Spencer : "Philosophy is concerned with everything as a universal science."
        • According to Joseph A.Leighton : "Philosophy like science consist of theories of insights arrived at as a result of systematic reflection."
        • According to Roy Wood Sellars : "Our subject is a collection of sciences, such as theory of knowledge, logic, cosmology, ethics and aesthetics, as well as a unified survey."

           >>Type: C) Philosophy based on inquire or search - Examples of this type of definitions are as follows: 
          • Sarvapalli Radhakrisnan : considers philosophy as "a logical inquire into the nature of reality."
          • According to Henderson : "Philosophy is a research for a comprehensive view of nature..."

             >>Type: D) Philosophy is a search for reality and truth - Examples of this type of definitions are as follows:
            • According to Raymont : "Philosophy is an unceasing effort to discover the general truth that lies behind the particular fact, to discover also the realities that lies behind appearance."
            • Sarvapalli Radhakrisnan considers philosophy as "a logical inquire into the nature of reality."
            • According to Brightman : "Philosophy may be love for the truth - the complete bode of knowledge the includes in it all truth - all truth organized into one great syestem."
            • Indian definition of philosophy : "Philosophy is not a subject of thought only but a realization of the truth."

               >>Type: E) Philosophy is a life necessity  - Examples of this type of definitions are as follows:

               Every human has some philosophical question about life. These questions are - what is life? what is Purpose of life? etc.

              • According to B.R Purkait :  "Philosophy tries to answer the deepest question of life. It clarifies life and its basic values."
              • According to Dewey : Philosophy signifies "a wisdom that would influence the conduct of life."
              • According to Aldous Huxley : "Men live in accordance with their philosophy of life."

                 From above the definitions, we may to say that :
                1. Philosophy is love of knowledge.
                2. Philosophy is love wisdom.
                3. Philosophy is an arts as well as science.
                4. Philosophy based on inquire or search.
                5. Philosophy is search for reality or truth.
                6. Philosophy is  life necessity.
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