hakuna matata (group 3) what is philosophy?

We started off with short introductions about ourselves and shared some of the things we put on our introduction comments from the previous class. When we started discussing Philosophy we began to brainstorm on what we thought Philosophy was. The clearest definitions we could come up with consisted of: Ideas, different opinions and outlooks on topics, thinking too much into things, and the study of different theories. We all agreed that trying to define Philosophy was difficult. We then began to discuss what we thought our personal philosophy's might be. We came up with sayings such as: You have to live for something greater than yourself, If your going to do something than go all out doing it, do the right thing, You only live once, and no worries. These were things that we believed in and lived our lives by. Lastly we discussed the relevance and purpose of philosophy. Philosophy is often used on an attempt to explain things and possibly grasp a better understanding of them. It possibly keeps us from falling into ignorance of believing everything that someone else says is true. It can keep your imagination alive by trying to think in a bigger scale. And our personal philosophy's give direction in life. We then reviewed over what some of the proffessors defined philosophy as from the intro in the book Philosophy Bites.