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- "The unexamined life is not worth living."
– Socrates
Philosophy is an Antiquity Age civic in Civilization VII.
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How do you use Philosophy? |
Civilopedia entry[]
Philosophy is musing about the nature of things. In the past, the lines between experimental science and philosophy were more blurred, and so philosophers at times would appear to be engineers or scientists, following the notion that the nature of things was open to practical as well as logical analysis. Religious thought and philosophical thought were less distinct than they are today: debates at the university in Nalanda were done by Buddhist monks, though the conclusions were no less philosophical than putatively secular academics. Babylonian philosophy and Chinese philosophy often revolved around statecraft – what is the proper role of the subject, and of the lord, and how does law intercede between the two? Indian philosophy, best embodied in ancient times in the Upanishads, considered the nature of existence and of the individual’s relationship to the dharma – that quality that controls, orders, and upholds life. Mediterranean philosophy, often termed “Western” (though its links were stronger to Syria than places like England at the time) or “Classical” (though the category excludes Classical Chinese and Sanskrit thinking) includes Pythagoras, Aristotle, Plato, and the like, who developed a method based upon argument and counter-argument that persists to this day.
See also[]
- Philosophy in other games
| Civilization VII Civics [edit] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Antiquity | Standard | |
| Unique | ||
| Exploration | Standard | |
| Theological | ||
| Unique | ||
| Modern | Standard | |
| Ideological | ||
| Unique | ||
| 1 Requires DLC | ||
