Step 1. Find out where you stand. You need to know how much your benefits will be and when, exactly, you'll reach what the Social Security Administration (SSA) considers full retirement age, the age at which you can receive those benefits without penalty. Your benefits are based on your lifetime earnings.
Word Origin and History for philosopher Expand. n. from Old English philosophe, from Latin philosophus philosopher, from Greek philosophos philosopher, sage, one who speculates on the nature of things and truth, literally lover of wisdom, from philos loving (see -phile) + sophos wise, a sage (see sophist).
A philosopher, in the more narrow and common usage, is any intellectual who has made contributions in one or more current fields of philosophy, such as aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, logic, metaphysics, social theory, and political philosophy.n the classical sense, a philosopher is someone who lives according to a way of life, whose focus is upon resolving existential questions about the human condition, and not someone who discourses upon theories or comments upon authors.