φιλοσοφία: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[love]] of [[knowledge]], [[pursuit]] thereof, [[speculation]], <span class="bibl">Isoc.12.209</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phd.</span>61a</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Grg.</span> 484c</span>, al.; ἡ φιλοσοφία κτῆσις ἐπιστήμης <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Euthd.</span>288d</span>; defined as <b class="b3">ἄσκησις ἐπιτηδείου τέχνης</b>, Stoic. in <span class="title">Placit.</span> 1 <span class="title">Prooem.</span>2. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">2</span> [[systematic]], [[methodical]] [[treatment]] of a [[subject]], ἐμπειρίᾳ μέτιθι καὶ φιλοσοφίᾳ <span class="bibl">Isoc.2.35</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ περὶ τὰς ἔριδας φιλοσοφία</b> [[scientific]] [[treatment]] of [[argumentation]], <span class="bibl">Id.10.6</span>; <b class="b3">ἡ περὶ τοὺς λόγους φιλοσοφία</b> the [[study]] of [[oratory]], <span class="bibl">Id.4.10</span>: pl., οἱ ἐν ταῖς φιλοσοφίαις πολὺν χρόνον διατρίψαντες <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Tht.</span>172c</span>; τέχναι καὶ φιλοσοφίαι <span class="bibl">Isoc.10.67</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">3</span> [[philosophy]], <span class="bibl">Id.11.22</span>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Def.</span>414b</span>, etc.; ἱστορία φιλοσοφία ἐστὶν ἐκ παραδειγμάτων <span class="bibl">D.H.<span class="title">Rh.</span>11.2</span>:—Isoc. usu. prefixes the Art., <span class="bibl">2.51</span>, <span class="bibl">5.84</span>, <span class="bibl">7.45</span> (but cf. <span class="bibl">2.35</span> supr.); sts. also in Pl. and Arist., as <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Grg.</span>482a</span>, <span class="bibl">Arist. <span class="title">Metaph.</span>993b20</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">EN</span>1177a25</span>, and so later, διὰ τῆς φιλοσοφίας καὶ κενῆς ἀπάτης <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Ep.Col.</span>2.8</span>; but more freq. without Art., τοῖς ἐν φιλοσοφίᾳ ζῶσιν <span class="bibl">Pl. <span class="title">Phd.</span>68c</span>, al., cf. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Pol.</span>1341b28</span>, al. (cf. Πλάτων καὶ φ. Plu.2.176d); exc. when an Adj. or some qualifying word is added to ἡ θεία φιλοσοφία <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Phdr.</span>239b</span>; ἐκείνου τῇ φ. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Ly.</span>213d</span>; ἡ περὶ τὰ ἀνθρώπεια φ. <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1181b15</span>; ἡ τῶν Ἰταλικῶν φιλοσοφία <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Metaph.</span>987a31</span> (and pl., <b class="b3">αἱ εἰρημέναι φιλοσοφίαι</b> ib.<span class="bibl">29</span>); so later ἡ Ἰωνικὴ φιλοσοφία <span class="bibl">D.L.1.122</span>; ἡ δογματική φιλοσοφία, Ἀκαδημαϊκή φιλοσοφία, σκεπτικὴ φιλοσοφία <span class="bibl">S.E.<span class="title">P.</span>1.4</span>, etc.; ὁ Ἐμπεδοκλῆς ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς φιλοσοφίας Plu.2.607c, etc.; esp. ἡ πρώτη φιλοσοφία =  [[first]] [[philosophy]], [[philosophia prima]], [[metaphysics]], <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Metaph.</span> 1026a24</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">18</span>.</span>