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Obviously, the meaning of the word "philosophy" may have experienced a bit of a drift over more than two thousand years. Physics used to go by the name of "natu
by incrudible 6y ago
Obviously, the meaning of the word "philosophy" may have experienced a bit of a drift over more than two thousand years. Physics used to go by the name of "natural philosophy", for instance.
Personally, I do associate the word with a meaning closer to "attitude" under certain circumstances. Stoicism and the contemporary Epicurianism are practical philosophies (attitudes) for living an ordinary life, not grandiose frameworks of thought.
- cptnapalm 6y agoThey did have grandiose frameworks of thought. Stoic continuum theory clashed with Epicurean atomic theory, for example. They were both deep, rich veins of thought. This was still known in Kant's time, but somewhere along the line awareness has seemingly vanished from philosophers.