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INTRODUCTION
Meaning-The term philosophy has a Greek origin, i.e philosophia, which is made
of two word ,viz. phileo and Sophia .Phileo means “love” and Sophia means
“wisdom”. The literal meaning of philosophy is “love of knowledge and wisdom”.
A philosopher is a lower of wisdom .
According to Coleridge
According to Fitche.
According to Cisero.
“Philosophy is the mother of all arts and the true medicine of mind.”
According to Aristippus.
Philosophy is the academic discipline concerned with making explicit the nature
and significance of ordinary and scientific beliefs and investigating the
intelligibility of concepts by means of rational argument concerning their
presuppositions,implications,and interrelationships; in particular ,the rational
investigation of the nature and structure of reality (Metaphysics),the resources and
limits of knowledge (Epistemiology ) the principles and import of moral
judgement (Ethics) , and the relationship between language and
reality(Semantics).
There is an old proverb that says “the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world .”
While it is certainly true that most children get most of their values from their
parents (the hand that rocks the cradle) they also get much from their teachers.
Teachers, especially in a society that hands off much of the child raising
responsibility to schools, get to do their share of cradle rocking .It is also true that
what a school teachers may either support or undermine what parents teach at
home.
National health policy (NHP) 2002 emphasizes the need to prepare nurses to
function in super –speciality areas who are required in tertiary care ,institutions
,entrusting some limited public health functions to nurses after providing adequate
training ,and increase the ratio of degree holding vis a vis diploma holding holding
nurses.