lately this subject has interested me and want to read more about it however I don't quite understand what exactly is philosophy? a person told me that philosophy was science in old era in western civilization.

the way I understand it seem science is more gravitated toward experimentation whereas philosophy feels more theoretical. so what is philosophy? ( I don't want the book definition I want how you people understand it )

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[–] 5 points 19 hours ago (1 child)

Philosophy is a tradition of thought, that originates from a guy in ancient athens. With that, it is a collection of texts.

The topics of these text vary. These text's cover those topics that are usually considered to be philosophical, but also those that bleed into religion, history and science.

Science, or as newton called it: 'natural philosophy' used to be a philosophical discipline. At my university the scientific 'faculty' left the 'philosophical' faculty only in the sixties

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago

    Today there is a subject called philosophy, in which you study these texts and ask questions that are not yet 'taken over' by another disciplines, that is: they are not yet fixed in their methodology?

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