Question: Falsafa ni nini?

Falsafa


Falsafa (kutoka Kigiriki φιλοσοφία filosofia = pendo la hekima) ni jaribio la kuelewa na kueleza ulimwengu kwa kutumia akili inayofuata hoja za mantiki.
Falsafa huchunguza mambo kama kuweko na kutokuweko, ukweli, ujuzi, uzuri, mema na mabaya, lugha, haki na mengine yoyote. 
Tofauti na dini, imani au itikadi, njia ya falsafa ni mantiki inayoeleza hatua zake ikiwa tayari kuchungulia upya kila hatua iliyochukua. Kwa hiyo falsafa ni njia ya kuuliza maswali na kutafuta majibu.
Katika lugha ya kila siku neno "falsafa" mara nyingi linachukuliwa kutaja jumla ya mafundisho au imani ya mtu au kundi la watu, kwa mfano "falsafa ya chama fulani", "falsafa ya maisha yangu" na kadhalika. Lakini kwa jumla fikra hizo hazistahili kuitwa "falsafa". Ila tu kuna makundi ya wanafalsafa wanaopendelea mielekeo tofauti na kuhusu haya inawezekana kutumia neno "falsafa ya fulani" kwa kutaja matokeo ya kazi yao.
Matawi ya falsafa
Falsafa jinsi inavyoendeshwa kwenye vyuo vikuu huwa na matawi kadhaa kama vile:
mantiki kama elimu ya kutafakari na mfululizo wa dhana
maadili ni elimu ya kutenda mema
metafizikia ni elimu ya vyanzo vya kuwepo, uhai na maarifa
epistemolojia ni elimu ya ufahamu na mipaka ya yale tunayoweza kujua
Aina za falsafa
Kuna mbinu nyingi za falsafa zilizoendelea kulingana na mazingira ya utamaduni ambako wanafalsafa waliishi. Mara nyingi falsafa imeendelea karibu na dini, ndani ya dini au kwa mchanganyiko na dini mbalimbali.
Lakini falsafa inachunguza pia matamko ya dini na kuuliza maswali juu ya maana ya matamko haya.
Wanafalsafa muhimu wa Asia walikuwa Konfutse na Lao Tze katika China na Buddha katika Uhindi.
Chanzo cha falsafa katika Ulaya kilitokea katika ustaarabu wa Ugiriki ya Kale. Wanafalsafa wa huko waliweka misingi mingi kwa dunia ya baadaye pamoja na misingi ya sayansi ya sasa. Kati ya majina mashuhuri ni Plato na Aristoteli.
Wanafalsafa
Wanafalsafa wa Ugiriki ya Kale
Pythagoras
Sokrates
Plato
Aristoteles
Epikur
Galenos
Wanafalsafa wa mapokeo ya magharibi
Agostino wa Hippo
Severini Boesyo
Thomas Aquinas
Bonaventura wa Bagnoregio
Niccolo Machiavelli
Thomas Hobbes
René Descartes
John Locke
Baruch Spinoza
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
George Berkeley
David Hume
Immanuel Kant
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Auguste Comte
Georg Wilhelm Frederich Hegel
Arthur Schopenhauer
Mary Wollstonecraft
Friedrich Engels
John Stuart Mill
Søren Kierkegaard
Karl Marx
Friedrich Nietzsche
Jacques Maritain
Wanafalsafa wa kisasa kutoka Ulaya na Marekani
Bertrand Russell
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Ayn Rand
Karl Popper
Willard Van Orman Quine
Eugene T. Gendlin
Noam Chomsky
Rudy Garns
Wanafalsafa wa Afrika
Plotinus
Zera Yakobu
Wanafalsafa wa Asia
Konfutse (Confucius)
Lao Tze
Siddharta Gautama (Buddha)
Acharya Madhwa (Madhavacharya)
Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
Al-Ghazali
Zhu Xi
Tazama pia
Jamii:Wanafalsafa nchi kwa nchi
Marejeo
A. Mihanjo, Falsafa na Usanifu wa Hoja, Salvatorianum, Morogoro
A. Mihanjo, Falsafa na Ufunuo wa Maarifa, Salvatorianum, Morogoro
Marejeo mengine
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Mashariki
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Ya kale
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