There are at least two senses in which the term philosophy is used: a formal and an informal sense. In the formal sense, philosophy is an academic study ofthe fields of aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, as well as social and political philosophy. One's "philosophy of life" is philosophy in the informal sense, as a personal philosophy , whose focus is resolving the existential questions about the human condition  .Timothy Fetler, Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion Charts, Sun Press, 1968. The term also refers to a specific conception of philosophizing as a way of life,Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) by Matthew Sharpe in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. endorsed by the German Lebensphilosophie movement whose main representative is Wilhelm DiltheyScott Campbell, Paul W. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 8. and several other Continental philosophers such as Henri BergsonMichael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark, Michael McGhee (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns – Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, p. 107. and Pierre Hadot.
A philosophy of life is any general attitude towards, or philosophical view of, the meaning of life or of the way life should be lived.| The term is generally used in an informal sense, meaning a personal philosophy whose focus is resolving basic existential questions about the human condition rather than an academic philosophical endeavour .Timothy Fetler, Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion Charts, Sun Press, 1968. The term also refers to a specific conception of philosophizing as a way of life,Pierre Hadot (1922-2010) by Matthew Sharpe in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. endorsed by the German Lebensphilosophie movement whose main representative is Wilhelm DiltheyScott Campbell, Paul W. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury, 2013, p. 8. and several other continental philosophers such as Henri BergsonMichael Chase, Stephen R. L. Clark, Michael McGhee (eds.), Philosophy as a Way of Life: Ancients and Moderns – Essays in Honor of Pierre Hadot, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, p. 107. and Pierre Hadot.
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