Spirituality vs Philosophy - What's the difference?
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The quality or state of being spiritual.
Concern for that which is unseen and intangible, as opposed to physical or mundane.
Appreciation for religious values.
(obsolete) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
(obsolete) An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
(uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
(uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
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(countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
(countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
(countable) A general principle (usually moral).
(archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.
To philosophize.
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As nouns the difference between spirituality and philosophy
is that spirituality is the quality or state of being spiritual while philosophy is (uncountable|originally) the love of wisdom.As a verb philosophy is
to philosophize.spirituality
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(wikipedia spirituality)Noun
(spiritualities)- A pleasure made for the soul, suitable to its spirituality . — South.
- If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest to spirituality . — Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Much of our spirituality and comfort in public worship depends on the state of mind in which we come. — Bickersteth.
- During the vacancy of a see, the archbishop is guardian of the spiritualities thereof. — Blackstone.
- Five entire subsidies were granted to the king by the spirituality . — Fuller.
philosophy
English
(wikipedia philosophy)Alternative forms
* philosophie (obsolete) * phylosophie (obsolete) * phylosophy (nonstandard)Noun
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- During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy , he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
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* analytic philosophy * antiphilosophy * continental philosophy * personal philosophy * philosophize * philosophy of mindVerb
- Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying , Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.