1. Philosophy..
1. (Philosophy) the academic discipline concerned with making explicit the nature
and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs and investigating the
intelligibility of concepts by means of rational argument concerning their
presuppositions, implications, and interrelationships; in particular, the rational
investigation of the nature and structure of reality (metaphysics), the resources and
limits of knowledge (epistemology), the principles and import of moral judgment
(ethics), and the relationship between language and reality (semantics)
2. (Philosophy) the particular doctrines relating to these issues of some specific
individual or school: the philosophy of Descartes.
3. (Philosophy) the critical study of the basic principles and concepts of a
discipline: the philosophy of law.
4. (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) the investigation of natural phenomena, esp
alchemy, astrology, and astronomy
5. any system of belief, values, or tenets
6. a personal outlook or viewpoint
7. serenity of temper
1. Love and pursuit of wisdom by intellectual means and moral self-discipline.
2. Investigation of the nature, causes, or principles of reality, knowledge, or values, based on
logical reasoning rather than empirical methods.
3. A system of thought based on or involving such inquiry: the philosophy of Hume.
4. The critical analysis of fundamental assumptions or beliefs.
5. The disciplines presented in university curriculums of science and the liberal arts, except
medicine, law, and theology.
6. The discipline comprising logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, and epistemology.
7. A set of ideas or beliefs relating to a particular field or activity; an underlying theory: an
original philosophy of advertising.
8. A system of values by which one lives: has an unusual philosophy of life.
Philosopher..
1. a student, teacher, or devotee of philosophy
2. a person of philosophical temperament, esp one who is patient, wise, and stoical
3. (formerly) an alchemist or devotee of occult science
4. a person who establishes the ideology of a cult or movement: the philosopher of the
revolution