Philosophy
as concern with human existence undoubtedly deals with the
deepest problem and issues of a
man and his existence. Philosophical
problem Koroner, said, are those problem that arise in the cause of trying to
master difficulties in cognition
However,
this legendary problem associated with
the definition of philosophy
ordinarily, is an all embracing
discipline, it covers both the humanities and the science at the out set, the whole field of knowledge
(learning) everything behold
reading writing and arithmetic was included
in the subject of
philosophy.
Philosophy is the mother of all subject . indeed,
philosophy , was the only subject available to give answers to the
fundamental questions arising from the universe and its contents.
The point is
that, philosophy is parental discipline
from which with the development of
humanity in process of learning and knowledge acquisition, kind of “erupted’ such that various branches of knowledge disengaged from it to form organized and systematic separate field of
specialized knowledge.
This rather centrifugal
movement of various braches of knowledge
from philosophy is only
indicative of mans acquisition of more extended
and better assured knowledge of classification of phenomena
In fact, that various specialized
disciplines are only regional ontologism by their orientation and character;
they deal only with fragment of knowledge hence, can only give in sufficient
and penultimate of account of knowledge. For them to see knowledge in its
whole, they have to go back to (their parent) philosophy the only discipline
that aims at understanding the quintessential and the universal in everything
that exists.
The ultimate reality that philosophers seek to know is
in contrast to the every day things of this world truly, self contained and
could accordingly, be looked upon as self caused. To arrive at does full
justice in explaining that is. The point is that we cannot explain things
satisfactorily if we remain within the world of common sense or even if one
advances from that world to embrace the world of science.
In conclusion, important of philosophy to practical
life and human development is that philosophy is as love of wisdom means a
continuous search for wisdom, the pursuit of wisdom not for gains but for its
own sake.
Wisdom is higher than
knowledge aptly shown by Aristotle(1966:5T5-57) according to
him, that all men desire to know different degree of knowledge, Aristotle also
view, that highest wisdom does not aim at producing anything or securing some effect, but at apprehending
the first principles of reality.
Philosophy to practical life and
development concern with all legitimate thinking of how man lives in
this would rather than
with the ultimate nature of being
man is a centre of all thinking he is
active and creative, he might be other than he is, man makes his essence as
he goes along. He is indeed, the focus of all activities (accoding jean Paul Sartre )
Finally philosophy helps in development of humanity
in acquisition of wisdom
and knowledge through reasoning, matters affecting human fate and
conduct in the most basic way