Philosophy is not the pursuit of knowledge for knowledge's sake. It is a life.
Philosophy is a knowledge of beings that tells us how to live.
Philosophy is a discourse that uses truth as an operative category and opens up an active void in thought.
Philosophy at large has unfolded through a long series of stratifications, refractions, fluctuations and metamorphoses.
Philosophy has evolved through conflicts between antagonistic ideas.
Philosophy has matured primarily as a form of epistemological enquiry and as a quest for accurate knowledge of the world as perceived by an isolated subject.