Sublime

Philo of Alexandria, for whom the word designated a kind of mediating power in Heaven, transmitting to the finite universe the ordering and governing power of God.

A philosophy is the aggregate of your attitudes toward fundamental matters and is derived from a process of consciously thinking about critical issues and developing rational reasons for holding one particular belief or position rather than another.

philos as the root of Philadelphia,

Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human reason rather than to authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation.

the word our Greek friends used to describe the love of friendship and the fellowship of being with people we enjoy. Philos describes the people you want to hang out with and who want to hang with you too.

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school…. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not theoretically, but practically. —Henry David Thoreau

Philosophy is simply asking us to pay careful attention and to strive to be more than a pawn. As Viktor Frankl puts it in The Will to Meaning, “Man is pushed by drives but pulled by values.”

This book is interesting in another respect. Although the writer is obviously an orthodox Jew, he uses the language of the Stoic philosophy, and is concerned to prove that the Jews live most completely in accordance with its precepts. The book opens with the sentence: “Philosophical in the highest degree is the question I propose to discuss, namely