i wasn't around a year ago we can say what it is but only in extremely broad terms philosophy is at least part of the western intellectual tradition and it asks three broad questions common to all known featherless bipeds which are rational beings the greek term which identifies human beings or homo sapiens and it asks in general three fundamental questions what is it to know knowledge epistemology what is it to be metaphysics ontology existence what is it to do the right thing ethics philosophy of peanuts i'm unfamiliar with perhaps you mean the philosophy of beans pythagoras had written 'on beans and a professor of mine at city college by the name of hutchinson demonstrated sarcastically i might add that one could construct a corriculum on anything including a philosophy of quizine