Falsafa

Falsafa (kutoka Kigiriki φιλοσοφία filosofia = filo, pendo la sofia, hekima) ni jaribio la kuelewa na kueleza ulimwengu kwa kutumia akili inayofuata hoja za mantiki. Kwa hiyo ili kutengeneza falsafa yako kunahitajika kuwa na hoja za msingi, hoja zilizojaa hoja (akili), kisha kuiweka falsafa yako kwa jamii ili waisome na kuielewa. Wapo watakaokubaliana na wewe kulingana na hoja zako na wapo watakaokupinga kutokana na hoja zako vilevile.

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
Vyanzo (google books)












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