1. Basic explanation
Philosophy, one of the social ideologies, is a theory about the worldview. It is a theoretical and systematic worldview, a summary and summary of natural knowledge, social knowledge, and thinking knowledge, and a unity of worldview and methodology. It is the specific existence and expression of social consciousness. It is a science that takes the form of pursuing the origin, essence, ultimate nature or absolute and ultimate metaphysics of the world, and takes the methodology of understanding and transforming the world as its research content. At the same time, in the famous science and technology fusion model, philosophy is at the top of the model, gathering and guiding specific science, and has an inseparable relationship with science.
2. Origin
It comes from the Greek word φιλοσοφ?α (philosophia), which means "love of wisdom". The Greek word Philosophia is composed of two parts: philo and sophia. Philein refers to love and pursuit, and sophia refers to wisdom.
The word "philosophy" originated very early in China and has a long history. Words such as "Ten Philosophers of Confucius" and "Ancient Sages and Sages", "philosophers" or "philosophers" specifically refer to those who are good at thinking and have profound knowledge, which is similar to "philosophers" and "thinkers" in the West. It is generally believed that Chinese philosophy originated in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, represented by Confucius' Confucianism, Laozi's Taoism, Mozi's Mohism, and late Legalism. In fact, in the previous "Book of Changes", philosophical issues had already begun to be discussed.
3. Basic questions of philosophy
The basic questions of philosophy and the highest questions of philosophy refer to the relationship between thinking and existence, consciousness and matter. Engels made this clear statement for the first time in his book "Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of German Classical Philosophy" written in 1886. Its proposal provides the correct standard for distinguishing the two opposing philosophical systems and philosophical schools of materialism and idealism, as well as for their objective evaluation.