Meaning from dictionary : "Search for general understanding of values and reality by chiefly speculative means" Based on Robert paul wolff : is an activity whose guiding principle is reason and whose goal is critical self understanding " Philosophy critical examination of the way in which judge, evaluate and act with the aim of making ourselves wiser, more self reflective therefore better man and woman. Question, Attitudes. and methods Methods , Characterisitics Questions, Knowledge/truth , Good, beauty God Justice , Freedoom , Mind , Reality Attitudes, Troubled , Wondering ,doubting, reflective, undogmatic. open-minded,unemotional,Rational Methods Logical ...