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Philosophy has almost as many definitions as there have been philosophers, and no simple definition can do it justice. The word is derived from the ancient Greek words philo-, to love or to befriend, and -sophia, wisdom. It can be construed then either as the love of wisdom or the wisdom of love. In the contemporary English-speaking academic world it is often used implicitly to refer to analytic philosophy and, in non-English speaking countries, it often refers implicitly to continental philosophy. Modern usage of the term is much broader; the concept of philosophy encompasses all of knowledge and all that can be known, including the means by which such knowledge can be acquired. The ancient Greeks organized the subject into five basic categories: metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics and aesthetics. This organization of the subject is still largely in use in Western philosophy today.
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