Philosophy is an ancient academic discipline that studies many different areas of life. Philosophy is the basis for asking, answering and arguing about something and can also be supported by certain ideologies. Since ancient Greece, philosophers have studied different areas of philosophy, from education, to social economics, to philosophy in politics. This academic discipline is the development of ideas of people who intended to express their thoughts. Philosophy can be applied in many situations and used anywhere in the world. Philosophy can be defined by the way we think and behave whenever we face certain situations. It brings out our values and thoughts about everything we do in life. Not everyone has the same philosophy towards the same problem. The way a person is raised has a great impact on his perception of life. Values, moral ethics and other factors can define how individuals create their own philosophy of life and attach themselves to events that happen during their life, creating an idea about a particular situation. There are positions within philosophy that might contradict each other. Most of the philosophies or ideologies discussed in our textbook “Philosophical and Ideological Voices in Education incorporate the four subdivisions of philosophy in any way, either to support or reject the ideas of others. Metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and logic are the subdivisions of philosophy that are used to support the ideas of some philosophers and others reject them completely. Some philosophers' ideas lie at one extreme or the other, while the rest lie in the middle, meaning that one philosophy may share or incorporate ideas from different areas of philosophy, and others may reject or acquire them... middle of paper...... be the truth, not the product of our imagination. The philosophy of pragmatism developed in the United States in the 20th century. John Dewey's version of pragmatism, also called experimentalism or instrumentalism. Pragmatism focuses on the practical application of ideas and their verification in human experience. These ideas could be hypotheses, plans, or theories for solving life's problems. Pragmatism has some similarities with realism. , Dewey's pragmatism used the scientific method to explore ideas and see if they worked or solved the problem and achieved the desired result. The last philosophy covered in this article is existentialism which originated after World War II and is defined by two words “exist” and “existence”. The idea behind existentialism is that a person or something is present at a particular time and place, to be real, actual and not imagined.
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