FRANCIS BACON PRINCIPLES AND HIS PHILOSOPHY
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What is philosophy? Is Philosophy Effective For Our Life? Is philosophy really good for science?The term "philosophy" comes from the Greek phileo - love, friend and sophia - wisdom and means love of wisdom. Among the ancient Greeks, the word love, in relation to wisdom, meant "the desire for knowledge, the thirst for knowledge."The first to use the word "philosopher" was Pythagoras. He believed that the meaning of philosophy is in the search for truth. However, they identified wisdom not with the achievement of truth, but with the ability to prove what everyone himself considers correct and beneficial. For this, any means were recognized as acceptable, up to various kinds of tricks. The famous ancient Greek thinker Platon believed that the task of philosophy is to know the eternal and absolute truths. This can only be done by philosophers who are endowed with a corresponding wise soul from birth. According to Aristotle, the task of philosophy is to comprehend the universal in the world itself, and its subject is the first principles and causes of being. Moreover, understanding for the purpose of knowledge and understanding itself”. So, some thinkers saw the essence of philosophy in finding the truth, others in hiding, distorting, adapting it to the respective interests. Some argue that philosophy is self-sufficient, others say that it should serve society and people, etc *.
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