φιλοσοφία: Difference between revisions

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