Philosophy is an attempt to get clear on some basic issues in our lives.
These include big questions about the existence of God, whether we can ever get the truth about the world, and whether we are able to know the right thing to do. In trying to find answers to these questions, lots of other problems arise, many of them fascinating in their own right. Anyone who has ever asked questions like these has already started to do philosophy. Philosophy is one of the world's oldest subjects of study. In ancient Greece, philosophers pursued many questions which would nowadays be regarded as scientific as well as philosophical ones.