IMPORTANCE OF PHILOSOPHY TO PRACTICAL LIFE AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Philosophy as concern with human existence undoubtedly deals with the deepest problem and issues of a man and his existence. Philosophical problem koroner, said, are those problem that arise in the cause of trying to master difficulties in cognition. However, this legendary problem associated with the definition of philosophy ordinarily, is an all embracing discipline, it covers both the humanities and the science. In fact, that various specialized disciplines are only regional ontologism by their orientation and character; they deal only with fragment of knowledge hence, can only give in sufficient and penultimate of account of knowledge. For them to see knowledge in its whole, they have to go back to (their parent) philosophy the only discipline that aims at understanding the quintessential and the universal in everything that exists. The ultimate reality that philosophers seek to know is in contrast to the every day things of this world truly, self contained and could accordingly, be looked upon as self caused. To arrive at does full justice in explaining that is. The point is that we cannot explain things satisfactorily if we remain within the world of common sense or even if one advances from that world to embrace the world of science. In conclusion, important of philosophy to practical life and human development is that philosophy is as love of wisdom means a continuous search for wisdom, the pursuit of wisdom not for gains but for its own sake. Wisdom is higher than knowledge aptly shown by Aristotle(1966:5T5-57) according to him, that all men desire to know deffecent degree of knowledge, Aristotle also view, that highest wisdom does not aim at producing anything or securing some effect, but at apprehending the first principles of reality. Philosophy to practical life and development concern with all legitimate thinking of how man lives in this would rather than with the ultimate nature of being man is a centre of all thinking he is active and creative, he might be other than he is, man makes his essence as he goes along. He is indeed, the focus of all activities (accoding jean Paul Sartre ) finally philosophy helps in development of humanity in acquisition of wisdom and knowledge through reasoning, matters affecting human fate and conduct. Whole field of knowledge (reaming ) everything behold reading writing and arithmetic was included in the subject of philosophy. Philosophy is the mother of all subject . indeed, philosophy , was the only subject available to give answers to the fundamental questions arising from the universe and its contents. The point is that, philosophy is parental discipline from which with the development of humanity in process of learning and knowledge acquisition, kind of “erupted’ such that various branches of knowledge disengaged from it to form organized and systematic separate field of specialized knowledge. This rather centrifugal movement of various braches of knowledge from philosophy is only indicative of mans acquisition of more extended and better assured knowledge of classification of phenomena ANALYTICS Analytics is a systematic procedures for providing results. To analyze a thing is to break it down to its constituent parts in order to determine their relationship and value
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