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"Philosophy is a study of problems which are ultimate, abstract and general. These problems are concerned with the nature of existence, knowledge, morality, reason and human purpose."[1]


Theory of philosophy[edit]



  1. a "love of wisdom",[5]
  2. an "academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism",[5]
  3. a "comprehensive system of belief",[5] or
  4. a "view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain"[5]

is called a philosophy.

Continental philosophy[edit]

"Continental philosophy is a term used in philosophy to designate one of two major contemporary "traditions" of current Western philosophy. It is so named to distinguish it from analytic philosophy, because, at the time when this, so-called, "Schism between Analytic and Continental Philosophy" first occurred (in the mid-twentieth century), continental philosophy was the dominant style of philosophy in continental Europe, while analytical philosophy was the predominant style in the English-speaking world and in Scandinavia. Continental philosophy is generally agreed to include phenomenology, existentialism, hermeneutics, structuralism, post-structuralism and post-modernism, deconstruction, French feminism, critical theory such as that of the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard, and most branches of Marxism and Marxist philosophy (though there also exists a self-described Analytical Marxism)."[6]

Dominant group[edit]

“The dominant group in educational philosophy, if one is to judge by the lists of set texts and required readings at English-speaking universities, is the School of Philosophical Analysis represented by Richard S. Peters, Paul H. Hirst, and Michael Oakeshott, with their American contemporaries Israel Scheffler, William R. Perry, and others who are cited in Chapter 7. Deconstruction, Critical Theory and Post-Modernism figure in Chapters 10 and 12, with candinavian thinkers from Kierkegaard to Bohr in Chapter 11.”[7]

"But, in Western societies, when litigation does take place, the plaintiff is unable to be heard because the regulation of the conflict takes place in the idiom of one party-the economically dominant group."[8]


Main source: Hypotheses
  1. Philosophers work on unanswerable questions.

See also[edit]


  1. 1.0 1.1 Jenny Teichmann and Katherine C. Evans, Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide (Blackwell Publishing, 1999), p. 1
  2. 2.0 2.1 A.C. Grayling, Philosophy 1: A Guide through the Subject (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 1
  3. 3.0 3.1 Anthony Quinton, in T. Honderich (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1995), p. 666
  4. "Philosophy, In: Wikipedia". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. December 15, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-19. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "philosophy, In: Wiktionary". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. December 14, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-19. 
  6. Mystictim (21 November 2006). "Topic:Continental philosophy, In: Wikiversity". San Francisco, California: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Retrieved 2016-06-12. 
  7. Desmond Keegan (2000). Desmond Keegan. ed. Introduction, In: Theoretical Principles of Distance Education. New York: Routledge. pp. 1-6. ISBN 0-203-98306-8. Retrieved 2012-04-27. 
  8. Patrick Fitzsimons, Graham Smith (April 2000). "Philosophy and indigenous cultural transformation". Educational Philosophy and Theory 32 (1): 25-41. doi:10.1111/j.1469-5812.2000.tb00430.x. Retrieved 2012-04-27. 

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