What is Philosophy?

• the academic study of anything
• what is the nature of reality itself?
• why do you what you do?
• why do you think what you think?
• why do you feel what you feel?
• are any of my choices actually free?
• philos and mythos ~ science and storytelling
• Philosophia~the love of wisdom
• first universities in the western world- Plato's Academy
• Aristotle's Lyceum studied many subjects
• Philosophy came to be understood more as a way of thinking about questions
• what is the world like
• what's the nature of reality?
• is the world just made up of matter and energy or is there something else going on?