Philosophy is the rational attempt to havea world view .It endeavors to reach a conception of the entire universe with all its elements and aspects and their inter relations to one another. The word philosophy literally means "love of wisdom" so true philosophy is to love wisdom , grow in wisdom, and apply this wisdom in the context of school and work in our day to day life.
Our main target should be true and to focus on rightness or right wisdom .Because the main aim of philosophy is to search the reality of the world. The importance of philosophy: By studying philosophy people can clarify what they believe, and can be stimu- lated to think about ultimate questions. A person can study philosophers past by studying philosophy and to discover why they thought as they did and what value their thoughts may have in our one's own life. Philosophy has great influence on our everyday life.
Every institution of society is based on philosophic ideas and philosophic thought is on inseparable part of human life. Philosophic inquiry can be made in to any subject because philosophy deals with everything in the world and all knowledge of philosophy 1s a comprehensive knowledge. There are five main branches of philosophy, each branch are very important in our day to day life. The branches are:
(1) Metaphysics
(i) Epistemology
(ii) logic
(iv) Ethics
(v) Aesthetics.
Metaphysics is the study of the fundamental nature of reality and existence and of the ssences of thinks. Metaphysics deals With such type of questions as - "what is real" "what is the distinction between appearance and reality?" Epistemology aims to determine the nature basis and extent of knowledge.
It explores the various ways of knowing, the nature of truth, and the relationship between knowledge and belief. Epistemology asks such type of questions as "what is truth? And what is false? " "How can we know the truth and false?" Are there different kind of know ledges with different grounds and characteristics. Logic is also another important branch of philosophy. By studying logic we know the principles and methods of reasoning Logic explores how we distinguish between good reasoning and bad reasoning.
We know that by birth no men are perfect or we do not know that reasoning 1S good or bad but logic can help us to correct our thinking and reasoning. Logic help us to think critically .In our day to day life many people do not argue or reason correctly but logic can lead us to correct reason. Ethics concern with human conduct, character, and values. It studies our nature of right- ness and wrongness and the distinction between good and evil. Right action leads to good consequence and bad action leads to evil consequence.
This is the main target of ethics. Ethics explores the nature ofjustice and also one's obligations to oneself, to others and to sOciety. Ethics deals with such questions such as "what makes right action and wrong actions?" "What is good and what is bad?" "What are the proper values of our day to day life? We often arises problems regarding ethics because we often hear dificulty, knowing exactly and "what is the right thing to do? In many cases our minds conflict disagree or misunderstand that whether a particular action or principle is morally right or wrong. Aesthetics deals with the creation and principles of art and beauty.
It also studies our thoughts, feelings and attitudes when we see, hear or read something beautiful. Something beautiful may be a work of art, such as painting, poem or it may be a sun set or other natural phenomenon or other natural beauty. It investigates the experience of engaging in such activities asks, dancing, acting, playing etc Aesthetics asks such type of questions "How art relate to spirituality and religion?" "Is it important to perform on art?" Human mind is filled with sorrow, sufferings and happiness. Or our life is very much complex. So in order to bring happiness in our day to day life sometimes art, and beauty makes us perfect or it can bring enjoyment in our life. Conclusion: Philosophy is a way of life, philosophy every person does not have his or her own philosophy .
It is on activity of thought a type of thinking and is a comprehensive thought or study. Philosophy can be said as a practical, synthetic and speculative knowledge. It is primarily after wisdom. Philosophy is one of the most important subjects to study each and every people to understand their rightness and wrongness of their activities.
