Philosophy stems from the Greek roots, “Phil,” and “sophy.” Phil is the “love of,” and is found in other words such as necrophilia and pedophilia “Sophy” is the Greek root for wisdom, thus philosophy is “the love of wisdom.”
Love is a longing, or a desire. To desire something is to recognize that there is a lacking, if there was no lacking, then there is no pursuit to get rid of the lacking, thus not being desirable. Therefore love is a lack. Wisdom is knowledge. To have knowledge is to know the truth of something. If the truth is not known, then it is ignorance. Thus the “love of wisdom” is to also lack the truth. It is because of this lacking that philosophers pursue the truth by first acknowledging that they are ignorant. If they were not ignorant, then they would know the truth, thus not being in pursuit. It is because of this pursuit that philosophy can be found in many fields of study, such as criminal justice, and math.
Aristotle’s teachings can be associated with justice, science, and math. Logic, and the structure of arguments can be attributed to Aristotle. Logic, to Aristotle, is the science that evaluates arguments. This structure that Aristotle created not only helps people structure arguments, but it also helps point out faults in reasoning, a fallacy. Even though just about anyone can use Aristotle’s Logic, it is Criminal Justice that exercises the use of Logic the most. Logic is one of the fundamental studies that participates in Criminal Justice. Criminal Justice also includes Ethics, and Political Philosophy. Logic also participates in math, most specifically in Geometry. Geometry associates with “likeness” of plains, lines, points, and angles. By finding “likeness,” it is a process of deduction. For example, all 90 degree angles and right angles. The corner of a bedroom as a 90 degree and angle. Therefore, the corner of a bedroom is a right angle. By associating the 90 degrees with a right angle, the connection that that a corner of a bedroom has a 90 degree angle and thus is also a right angle.
Aristotle is one of many philosophers that addressed various fields of study. There are many other branches of philosophy that address various problems. The branches of philosophy include metaphysics, the inquiry into the nature of reality as such, which includes the sub categories of materialism, the view that reality consist of only matter, the sub categories rationalism, The view that reality consists of only mind and matter, and dualism, the view that everything consists of mind and matter; Epistemology, the inquiry of reality as such, including the sub categories, empiricism and rationalism; Logic, the science that evaluates arguments, Value theory, which is the concern with the distinction between fact and value; and lastly, political philosophy, which it concerned with different types of government. All these branches address something within the world, or something beyond the world, and what is listed is not all the inquiries that philosophers delve into.
