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词源

源自中古英語 、古法語 以及两者词源拉丁語 ，源自古希臘語 (philosophía)，源自 (phílos, “爱...的”) + (sophía, “智慧”)。可作 +‎ 分析。取代英语本土词古英語 。

发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助)：/fɪˈlɒsəfi/
• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助)：/fɪˈlɑsəfi/

• 音频（通用美式）：

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名词

(可數 和 不可數，複數)

1. (不可數，原意) 喜好智慧
2. (不可數) 哲學 （学科）

   Philosophy is often divided into five major branches: logic, metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and aesthetics.

   哲学常划分为五个主要分支：逻辑、形而上学、认知论、伦理学和美学。

   • 1661, John Fell, The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond

     During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy, he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant […]

3. (可數) 理论体系，理念体系
4. (可數) 哲學 （某领域基本概念的看法、观念）

   a philosophy of government;   a philosophy of education

   执政的哲学；教育的理念

5. (可數) 一般规则 （一般指道德）
   • 2012, Francesca Valensise, From Building Fabric to City Form: Reconstruction in Calabria at end of Eighteenth Century‎, Gangemi Editore spa, →ISBN，頁號 8:

     As a matter of fact the Enlightment culture was based on a philosophy inspired to an ethical laicism whose aim was to create a better society based on principles such as solidarity, equality of rights and duties, and full freedom.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

6. (古舊) 更广义的非应用科学分支。
7. 冷静而理智的行为举止
8. (印刷，過時) 之同義詞 (常用于法语印刷)。
   • 2010, Thomas Wharton, Salamander, Emblem Editions (ISBN 9781551994444)

     Although I prefer small pica. Or as itsTemplate:SIC sometimes known, philosophy.

     – Small pica, or philosophy, she said. It sounds like the title of a novel. With a girl heroine.

动词

(第三人稱單數簡單現在時，現在分詞，一般過去時及過去分詞)

1. (現罕用) 论述
   • 1603, , 章號 12, 出自 （譯者）, The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying, Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

延伸阅读

• "philosophy" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 235.