#PHILOSOPHY

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Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine… Traditionally the study of logic, the basic principles of science, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. In a wider sense, the general principles of any subject can be called its philosophy. Approaching a misuse of the word, the philosophy of education means merely the policy of school administration; and a philosophy of life designates any individual’s preferences, no matter how poorly systematized. Inspired though it be, Ecclesiastes, is an example of this popular meaning, and has little to do with the subject matter of professional technical philosophy. The reason for these shades of meaning, is that philosophizing is generalizing, and no authority can fix the degree of generalizing necessary to merit the name. The meaning of the word, in the Bible is hard to determine. It could possibly refer to Gnosticism or perhaps mean only ethics for in the first century the Greek schools, had sunk to their nadir and discussed little else. The common element in all generalizations is a claim to knowledge. Therefore the crucial question of philosophy is how is knowledge possible? Attempts to justify knowledge, are called epistemology. Metaphysics, the theory of being not the being of plants or botany, not the being of animals or zoology, not even the being of inanimate matter but of being, without qualification being as such is sometimes, said to be the basic subject but even Thomism, which makes such a claim, stands or falls with its theory of learning. The answer to the question what do you know provokes the further question how do you know? Epistemology is the basis of philosophy. The Scripture, does not discuss these subjects explicitly and technically. Christian philosophers, believe that one can see, philosophical principles presupposed by the text. The Thomists think that Romans requires empiricism and justifies the cosmological argument.