1.
a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields
In this sense everyone offers views or theories on profound questions, they just don't always come up with very profound answers
4.
a person who regulates his or her life, actions, judgments, utterances, etc., by the light of philosophy or reason.
in this sense everyone regulates their life on whatever their philosophy is, but a lot of the time it is poorly defined and is used only at certain times-ie a person has the general philosophy that everything must be in balance but then they lose their job and punch their boss in the face-they don't really truly adhere to their own philosophy, you know?
2.
a person who is deeply versed in philosophy.
3.
a person who establishes the central ideas of some movement, cult, etc.
5.
a person who is rationally or sensibly calm, esp. under trying circumstances.
in these senses of the word, then no not everyone is a "true" philosopher, but that wasn't really my point. My point was that everyone practices philosophy, from the greek philosophia, or love of wisdom, the study/pursuit of wisdom, and everyone pursues wisdom as far as it will help them make sense of their world, everyone has some type of motive and general thought process, some type of "philosophy" which drives their actions be it conscious and disciplined or subconscious and irrational, so this is what I mean by everyone is a philosopher, just the majority of people are not very disciplined or rational in their philosophy, do not really "know" what they think about life, and you shouldn't really look down on them for that, but it is good to better define your philosophy and understand if you truly do agree with the philosophy you follow, or if you blindly follow it motivated by other gains-ie the christian who doesn't really believe in any of it but just wants to be seen as a good person by the community, so I think it is important to realize that your philosophy, whether "right" or not can be motivated not by the pursuit of wisdom, but by the pursuit of personal gain just as much as anyone's "philosophy" by which I mean general beliefs they live their life by, because any philosophy, no matter how well defined or "perfected" is subject to ulterior motives, and if your ulterior motive to pursuing philosophy is to be superior then you have tainted your philosophical pursuit, so don't look down on others for their philosophy, lest it corrupt your own
see what I mean? You still don't have to agree or anything, but I didn't mean it in the professional sense that you implied
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