Philosophy?

What is Philosophy?

Philosophy is the study of human nature with reference to the nature or environment he exists in. It is a combination of study of the truth (existence), epistemology, and moral principles. One can never start to learn philosophy if one never knows how to ask.

What should you ask?

To know what to ask, one has to be conscious of the surroundings first. The question what is supposed to have been asked a long time ago, when one is still on the "inexperienced" stage. But that doesn't end there, as a person gets older, more "what" questions emerge. So the question "what" is basically a part of every human being.

Next comes the question how. As a follow-up question to "what", "how" asks questions about the processes that happened that made anything we ask "what" existent. To really grasp the true value of every object pointed to by the answer to the question "what", one has to know its properties. To be able to acquire this information, one has to know the methods of the application and the source of such object. This will further lead the learner to the question "where" which is more focused on the source location of such object. But this question can be substituted by "how" because "how" focuses on the sub-objects and source objects that make up the object we are inquiring about.

After asking these two questions, the third and most important question occurs. The why. As a supplement to the two questions "what" and "how", "why" asks the purpose of the object in question.

Any inquiry would never be complete if the question "why" is never asked. It is this question that attempts to answer investigations of uncertain matters. It is through this "why" that most theories, generalizations and facts are now into writings. It is through this that a lot of universal puzzles have been solved.

And?

We are called human beings because of our capability to perceive and conceptualize the things we experience through our senses. We are capable of integrating pieces of data into solid objects, or even sorting pieces of an abstraction.

Humans are not just a higher form of animals. We are humans with our own means and our own ends. We do not do things by instincts or some ecological patterns like those of animals, we create.

To those who are not yet convinced that we are independent of any animal specie, there's only one argument I would like to leave.

Through analysis of our adaptation and all those technological advancements we are continually discovering, we are incomparable to the survival instincts of animals.

We create our own paths. Even though there are a lot of predicaments, we are continually searching for better ways of approaching them. We find solutions and these make us the rational beings that we are.

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