The Beginning 3
Shalom Aleichem, we meet again in the Philosophical Journey. In this writing, we will meet with philosophy and theology, gain some philosophical and theological context and later on the next writing the journey will begin. The word "philosophy" comes from Greek "philosophia" which is formed from 2 words "philo" which means love and "sophia" which means wisdom. Therefore philosophy etymologically is love of wisdom. "Theology" is also from Greek that is "theologia" where "theos" means God and "logos" means study or reasoning. So theology etymologically is the study of the divine. We can unite these 2 studies. Philosophy is the love of wisdom, why is that? First we can define the 2 terms involved, love and wisdom. Love in this context means like, awe, and attraction. Wisdom is harder to define, but it can be said as the good and right understand and the ability to apply that understanding. However there is a...