This is what Philosophy is; not this postmodern bullshit parading itself as philosophy nowadays
Philo means "the love of"
Sophy is a Greek root of "Sophia" the goddess of wisdom (aka the Holy Spirit)
Philosophy is the practice of exploring wisdom, as an idealized platonic form. The reason why the Greeks built statues that they believed possessed the essence of their Gods is because if you connect three platonic forms it forms an angle, and this angle is a facet of the Godhead in the divine realm of forms which consists of all forms, and their Gods were assigned these characteristics, anthropomorphized and "Concretized" (quite literally) into a statue which served as a "Concretized form". These angles, in the Christian mythos became ANGELS and, Michael, for example is the angle you form when you connect wisdom strength and humility together which is also the crux of Pythagoreanism.
This is also the "humanities" portion of my daughters homeschool curriculum which was approved in full as transferrable credits when I laid out a presentation of it for her principal and district superintendent; needless to say they were fucking floored and absolutely dumbstruck.
The principal offered me a job as their interdisciplinary curriculum instructor on my way out if I could get credentialed to teach in California.
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