philosophy is.....actually a dry subject; at least i personally find it so.
though not shakespeares, we all still know ABC of english!! like that...if we try to learn the ABC of philosophy?!!!!
what is philosophy? im sure this term is not at all new to you. please, try to define it yourself. most of us would be correct if we define philosophy as, " something that is very very simple, but you dont understand ".
philosophy sounds so confusing because.......there's no proper way to understand the subject; it sounds soooooo arbitrary.
there are tooooooooooooooo many philosophers....too many schools of thought......, only to confuse us! unless they leave us dazed, they cannot take advantage of our confusion!
okkkk! enough of our philosophy on philosophy!!
straight into ABC of it.
philosophy is the most generalised understanding of our thoughts, ourselves and everything in our surrounding, entire universe/multiverse. still confusing?! it should be.
fine. cataract needs an ophthalmologist. kidney ailment needs a nephrologist. heart-disease needs a cardiologist. stomach & digestion systems need gastro-entrologist. they all need specialists. still there are general doctors too with only a bachelor's degree in medicine-MBBS?! yes. just general medicine-NOT SPECIALISTs. there's the difference, general doctors vs specialists.
in general, medical field attempts to cure ailments.
in general, philosophy attempts to study the entire surrounding(objective reality) and our thought processes(abstract reality).
in attempting to understand the world around us, philosophy is universal&general while all other science-fields are particular&special. physics studies the interaction of bodies in motion and rest. chemistry studies the chemical substances, reactions and their influence on each other while coming into contact. biology studies lives of plants while zoology studies about animal world.
all science fields try to understand a part of the universe, while everything in the universe has one/more aspects and hence need one/more scientific fields of study.
philosophy is the MOST GENERALISED SCIENCE. it attempts to study the entire world/universe as a whole, not from an ant's eye-view....not from a bird's eye-view....but from a satellite-view; taking everything entirely into its field of vision; but yes, resolution gets compromised. after all philosophy must know where to stop from proceeding further.
1.materialism 2.idealism
what are they?!
materialists say, 'only material/matter came first or matter of this universe has been existing without end; then that matter gave raise to conception/idea/thought/image of that physical object through sense-organs. so...that conception/idea/thought/image of that matter became secondary to the sense-stimulators(matter). as we touch/see/smell/taste/hear.....one or more aspects of that object(or matter in general) is reflected to the brain through skin/eyes/nose/tongue/ears. when all these aspects are clubbed together as a whole, they form the image of that object.
while idealists say, ' nothing exists in real; nothing exists outside our thoughts, but only OUR thoughts/imagination/idea CREATES the entire universe and all objects on it. it simplifies that WE ONLY IMAGINE THINGS TO BE THERE AROUND US; but in reality, outside our thought processes, nothing exists physically.
now how to simplify this further? here is how....
so....what do you see above picture? okok. mangoes!
now....if your taste buds get wet by your saliva, why dont you just pick these 2 mangoes out of your monitor and eat them all yourself ?
sounds a silly suggestion? of course, of course..... deliberately so! (ஏட்டுச் சுரைக்காய் கறிக்கு உதவாது; LED மாங்காயைக் கடிக்க முடியாது!)
then....THESE 2 mangoes are NOT real MANGOES; but JUST IMAGES of mangoes. cool cool. please donot murmur, " idiot fella, come to the point straight". it's clearly audible!!
this small game was necessary to make it clear that, ABSTRACT and OBJECTIVE are actually different from, though stand for each other.
real mango is objective, while the above image of them is an abstract; the image you conceive in your mind while you think of mango is also abstract. abstract is just an IMAGE of REALITY.
in this entire universe.....everything that exists is....either an objective-reality.........or an abstract-reality as image in mind/paper/tv/monitor. there's nothing that's neither objective nor abstract.
this is called materialism; materialism says, ' it's the objective reality that creates images in our mind.' surrounding material is primary and our thoughts/images of the world are secondary, derivatives of the primary stimulators.
you know how AEther looks?! dont know? just try to imagine how it may look! no use? fine. please dont worry.it's tooooooooo difficult because no such aether exists in real to stimulate our sense organs to create an image of them in mind.
the opposite of materialism is....idealism(from idea). it means.....it is only OUR IMAGINATIONS that create things that exist around us.
it means...there is actually no mango in front of you ever; you just alwayssssssss.....imagine that there is a mango even while holding it in your hand and mouth! it's just an idea conceived and extended. it's idealism against materialism.
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