THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES & SOCIAL STUDIES

Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 2016

The aim of this paper is to examine the nature, scope and importance of philosophy in the light of its relation to other disciplines. This work pays its focus on the various fundamental problems of philosophy, relating to Ethics, Metaphysics, Epistemology Logic, and its association with scientific realism. It will also highlight the various facets of these problems and the role of philosophers to point out the various issues relating to human issues. It is widely agreed that philosophy as a multi-dimensional subject that shows affinity to others branches of philosophy like, Philosophy of Science, Humanities, Physics and Mathematics, but this paper also seeks, a philosophical nature towards the universal problems of nature. It evaluates the contribution and sacrifices of the great sages of philosophers to promote the clarity and progress in the field of philosophy.

2011

This paper argues in defence of the thesis that philosophy (metaphysics) is the most basic and fundamental of all scientific knowledge and is presupposed by all systematic human inquiries. At the beginning of the history of knowledge, the paper opines, philosophy (Metaphysics) was the one and only science. Thus the questions asked by philosophers at that early stage, later became the property of different fields of knowledge and inquiry. The paper maintains that it was only after the rise of modern science in the seventeenth century that the lines of demarcation between areas of investigation became more obvious and more permanent. Since it is clear, from the above, that the so-called “exact sciences” are not the most basic and fundamental sources of knowledge, what they produce have to be scrutinized and be solidly established in the light of the vision of things entire, provided by a well grounded philosophy, the paper argues. Our justification therefore, the paper maintains, for ...

Philosophies, 2020

Studia Gilsoniana, 2014

The main problems of this text are related to the content and the importance of the concept of the good life for us now. The investigation was initially expanded into the topics of the human essence and condition and subsequently into methodological and ontological problems. Human essence and conditions appear in the socio-historical world and should not be treated as metaphysical and eternal ideas. On the ground of a long tradition, it appeared that good or noble life is effectively identical, at least in our age, to liberation and was contrasted with bondage. However, there are many problems related to the universality and direct applicability of such concepts, so an unconditional identification seems like a premature and naive conclusion. Nevertheless, liberation still remains one of the highest and noblest visions and projects for a good life available to us now.

International Journal of Management Studies and Social Science Research, 2022

The elevation of science and scientific knowledge above other disciplines and knowledge is not without reason or justification. Science has made life easier for people. It has reduced the level of superstition. Above all, it has made the world a global village. However, it has come with its own challenges. In a world dominated by science and technology, can Philosophy, as a discipline, play major roles in the development of a society? How progressive is the society with the rise of philosophy and science? There is no doubt that Philosophy is abstract and largely theoretical. Philosophy is also argumentative and its major tool is argument. Nothing is correct or right unless it is proved. What is however not correct about Philosophy is that it is of no use to non-philosophers and the society in general. As science has its values and usefulness to the society, so also is Philosophy. They may not play the same roles, but their roles are complimentary which eventually leads to the development of the society. Thus, for the success of this work, we shall systematically analyze the successes recorded by scientific growth, the philosophical footprints and influences of these successes and the possibility of a scientific society illumined by philosophical principles.

This article offers the motivation for organising a conference on philosophy as it is practised across several faculties and departments at the University of Cambridge. It also offers an overview of the main themes that emerge in the essays collected in this issue of Metaphilosophy, which derive from the aforementioned conference. In particular it focuses on the risk of scholasticism and dogmatism that philosophy faces when it divorces itself from its own history, other disciplines, and real life. It then discusses the potential problems that can arise from the practice of philosophy in close conjunction with other disciplines, such as the natural sciences and the history of philosophy. Finally, it briefly comments on how institutional/academic structures have an influence on the way philosophy is practised.

“It is very tempting for people not to think, to remain submerged in reality rather than aware of it, to be carried along by the current of events rather than creating their destiny through thoughtful, independent choices” (Chaffee, 2013). In this paper, the importance of philosophy is discussed in practical terms. Why is it important? What purpose does it serve and what reasons do people have for pursuing an education in it? How can this affect my life? The major branches of philosophy, which are Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Political & Social, Aesthetics and Logic, are also discussed along with the contributing questions specific to each branch and what each branch focuses on.

2022

In spite of the unprecedented nowadays communication involving the philosophers worldwide, it appears that there is still no consensus about the definition of the philosophy. While quite practical extracts addressing that issue can be found in sources such as Wikipedia and the Free Dictionary, these are somewhat blurred by the differences in the tendencies of different authors to focus on some of themes, while neglecting the others. For example, some authors concentrate on the psychological aspects such as aesthetics and ethics while the others put more emphasis on the nature and the ultimate significance of the universe. Although one can at the intersects of these trends recognise that the philosophers converge to studying of most general and fundamental questions about our relation with the world, a formal widely adopted definition seems to be still missing.