Instant Access To 100,000+ Essays!

In this paper you will find what philosophy is, the different types of questions one may ask when seeking the meaning of life, and Tolstoy’s concerns with his life and how he came to deal with the meaning of his life. Philosophy is a very unique subject in that it doesn’t really have a study of anything; philosophy is more of a way of thinking, where you think about the meaning of things such as life or the purpose of ethics and morals. In other disciplines there is a focus such as biology, the study of living things, or physics, the study of certain laws that govern the universe but philosophy is different, anything can be thought about in a philosophical sense. Of course for it to be interesting it must have lots of different beliefs, must be cohesive and complex, and it must be significant for others to take an interest in it. For example the meaning of life fit’s all of these criteria and people would like to know what it is, it appeals to everyone. Where as not everyone may care how someone thinks of a can of soup in a philosophical way. There are three different ty