Introduction to Philosophy

Man by nature is a philosopher. What we can call a philosophy is neither a narrative story or a written volume of a text. The way we live with others in society and converse is enough to be called a philosophy. The written philosophy has been made from the nature itself. Philosophy arouses varieties of questions such as why?, what?, how?, when? Where? When? And many others of the like. The material object of philosophy is the study of all things. But the formal object of philosophy is the fundamental explanation of these things. Philosophy like all other disciplines is a science but it is a universal science which undertakes to give the innermost explanation of all things. Whereas other disciplines are restricted in one field, philosophy is limitless in its study because it treats all questions of being. Its generality allows it to include everything which is studied by other sciences - but it goes deeper to find the root basis of its objects of study. Whereas for instance, biology studies the how plants and animals move, philosophy will go further and ask "why is there motion at all"?