WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY

1. Philosophy
Presented by:
M Tahir Waqas

2. Introduction
What is Philosophy?

3. Introduction
Man is always curious to know
• His origin
• His aim
• His relationship with God
• His destiny etc

4. Introduction
This constant effort of man to understand reality
termed as philosophy. It is an attempt to
unfold life’s mysteries and find meaning in
them.
Hence it is called the Mother of all arts and
science of all sciences.
The search for wisdom is known as philosophy.

5. Introduction
Etymological Meaning
Philosophy word has a Greek origin and is
consisted of two words
Philos = Love
Sophia = Wisdom
(love for wisdom)
Definition
The study of the fundamental nature of
knowledge, reality and existence.

6. Relationship between Education and
Philosophy
In the word of Dewey:
Education is a laboratory in which philosophic
distinctions become concrete and are tested.
Philosophy is wisdom; education transmits that wisdom
from one generation to the other. Philosophy
represents a system of thoughts; education embrace
that thought in the content of instruction. Philosophy
embodies a way of life; education is preparation for
life. Philosophy is the knowledge obtained by natural
reason; education is the development of that reason
and other powers of mind.

7. Relationship between Education and
Philosophy
Philosophy is the theory of education while
education is practical thereof.
Education is the best means of propagation of
philosophy.
Philosophy with the ends and education is the
means to achieve those ends.
Philosophy give ideals, values and principle
while education works out those ideals, values
and principle.

8. Philosophy’s Contribution towards
Education
• John Dewey

9. Philosophy’s Contribution towards
Education
John Dewey
John Dewey (1859-1952) believed that learning
was active and schooling unnecessarily long
and restrictive.
His idea was that children came to school to do
things and live in a community which gave
them real, guided experiences which fostered
their capacity to contribute to society.

10. Philosophy’s Contribution towards
Education
For example, Dewey believed that students should
be involved in real-life tasks and challenges:
• maths could be learnt via learning proportions in
cooking or figuring out how long it would take to
get from one place to another by mule.
• history could be learnt by experiencing how
people lived, geography, what the climate was
like, and how plants and animals grew, were
important subjects

11. Philosophy’s Contribution towards
Education
• Dewey's philosophy was called
instrumentalism (related to pragmatism).
• Instrumentalism believes that truth is an
instrument used by human beings to solve
their problems.
• Since problems change, then so must truth.
• Since problems change, truth changes, and
therefore there can be no eternal reality.