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- Philosophy
What is Philosophy? ...
- Philosophical Method
Philosophical Method
(or philosophical
methodology) is the study and
description of how to "do" Philosophy, arguably
the "Mother" of all the Arts and Sciences. ...
- Ethics
Ethics (from the
Ancient Greek ethikos, the adjective
of ethos, "custom, habit"), is a
major branch of Philosophy and the
study of Value Theory,
Customs and Morality of a person or
group. It covers the analysis and employment
of concepts such as Right and Wrong, Good and Evil, and
moral responsibility. Ethics is divided into
three primary areas: Metaethics (the
of the concept of ethics), Normative
Ethics (the study of how to determine
ethical values), and Applied Ethics
(the study of the use of ethical values).
Metaethics:
One strand of Metaethics is called
"non-realism", because it suggests moral
values are creations, dependent on people's
feelings and goals regarding themselves and
others (emotivism or prescriptivism) or on
their belief systems (cultural or individual
relativism). Despite the name, non-realist
theories may see reality as important in
shaping the human choice of ethical values.
This could occur indirectly by, for example,
the evolutionary or developmental shaping of
human psychology, or directly through, for
example, people assessing and debating the
likely consequences of their
actions.
Another group of metaethical
theories, by contrast hold that moral value
is a Realism, somehow an
intrinsic property of the world and that
ethical principles are simply discovered or
intuited. Under this view, ethical values
held by people can at best reflect an
independent Truth by which their
validity must be judged. These theories may
be derived from Theology or Naturalism.
Most
informed Ethics discussions will consider the
metaethical position of the participants
involved, and the importance of this
distinction can be seen clearly when we
consider Ethics in Psychology (below). ...
- Metaphysics
Metaphysics is a
difficult branch of Philosophy, but is
rather easy to define: It is the study of
the most fundamental concepts and
beliefs about them. ...
- Ontology
Ontology is the
most fundamental branch of Metaphysics, the
study of Being and Existence, as well as
the basic Categories of things in
general. ...
- Teleology
Teleology
(telos: end, purpose) is the philosophical study of
design, purpose, directive
principle, or finality in nature or human
creations. ...
- Theology
Th
eology was used as early as in Plato's Republic (book ii, chap
18). The the term, compounded from two Greek
words theos (god) and logos
(rational utterance), has been defined as reasoned discourse about God or
the gods, or more generally
about religion or spirituality. ...
- Inquiry
Inquiry is any
proceeding or process that has the aim of
augmenting knowledge, resolving doubt, or
solving a problem. ...
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