What is Philosophy?

What is Philosophy? | Introductory lecture to 'Marxism and the History of Western Philosophy' Course taught by Carlos L. Garrido for the Midwestern Marx Institute’s Marxism School

When we speak about philosophy, what we are talking about is a worldview, a unity of ontology (statements about the objective constitution of the world) and an epistemology (claims relating to the question of knowledge, both in a descriptive and prescriptive sense - i.e., how we think we view the world, and, in some cases, how we should view the world to understand it best).