源自中古英語 philosophie、古法語 philosophie以及兩者詞源拉丁語 philosophia,源自古希臘語 φιλοσοφία (philosophía),源自φίλος (phílos, 「愛...的」) + σοφία (sophía, 「智慧」)。可作philo- + -sophy分析。取代英語本土詞古英語 ūþwitegung。
philosophy (可數 和 不可數,複數 philosophies)
- (不可數,原意) 喜好智慧
- (不可數) 哲學 (學科)
Philosophy is often divided into five major branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.- 哲學常劃分為五個主要分支:邏輯、形而上學、認知論、倫理學和美學。
- (可數) 理論體系,理念體系
- (可數) 哲學 (某領域基本概念的看法、觀念)
a philosophy of government; a philosophy of education- 執政的哲學;教育的理念
- (可數) 一般規則 (一般指道德)
2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century[1], Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN,頁號 8:As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.- (請為本引文添加中文翻譯)
- (古舊) 更廣義的非應用科學分支。
- 冷靜而理智的行為舉止
- (印刷,過時) small pica之同義詞 (常用於法語印刷)。
- 2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions (ISBN 9781551994444)
- Although I prefer small pica. Or as itsTemplate:SIC sometimes known, philosophy.
- – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.
- analytic philosophy
- antiphilosophy
- astrophilosophy
- biophilosophy
- continental philosophy
- counterphilosophy
- cyberphilosophy
- Doctor of Philosophy
- ecophilosophy
- ethnophilosophy
- foolosophy
- geophilosophy
- metaphilosophy
- moral philosophy
- natural philosophy
- neurophilosophy
- nonphilosophy
- perennial philosophy
- personal philosophy
- philosophize
- philosophylike
- philosophy of mind
- philosophy of science
- physiophilosophy
- pseudophilosophy
- psychophilosophy
- religiophilosophy
- sociophilosophy
- speculative philosophy
- theophilosophy
philosophy (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 philosophies,現在分詞 philosophying,一般過去時及過去分詞 philosophied)
- (現罕用) 論述
- "philosophy" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 235.