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Old 07-23-2008, 07:12 PM
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philosophy has lot of branches. those who dont know about these branches check below:

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Metaphysics investigates the nature of being and the world. Traditional branches are cosmology and ontology.

Epistemology is concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge, and whether knowledge is possible. Among its central concerns has been the challenge posed by skepticism and the relationships between truth, belief and justification.

Ethics, or 'moral philosophy', is concerned with questions of how persons ought to act or if such questions are answerable. The main branches of ethics are meta-ethics (sometimes called "analytic ethics"), normative ethics and applied ethics. Metaethics concerns the nature of ethical thought, comparison of various ethical systems, whether there are absolute ethical truths, and how such truths could be known. Ethics is also associated with the idea of morality. Plato's early dialogues include a search for definitions of virtue.

Political Philosophy is the study of government and the relationship of individuals and communities to the state. It includes questions about law, property, and the rights and obligations of the citizen.

Aesthetics deals with beauty, art, enjoyment, sensory-emotional values, perception, and matters of taste and sentiment.

Logic deals with patterns of thinking that lead from true premises to true conclusions. Beginning in the late 19th century, mathematicians such as Frege began a mathematical treatment of logic, and today the subject of logic has two broad divisions: mathematical logic (formal symbolic logic) and what is now called philosophical logic.

Philosophy of Mind deals with the nature of the mind and its relationship to the body, and is typified by disputes between dualism and materialism. In recent years there is an increasing connection between this branch of philosophy and cognitive science

Philosophy of language: is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language.

which one of those attracts you more?



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Personally, metaphysics had always been a favourite, but of late, I am also into epistemology, so i really cannot pick between the two. I do not like many concepts in both of these in the western philosophy, so I do revert back to Eastern Philosophies quite occasionally for these two.

Ethics for me is a very personal matter, and if you really ask me 'why is this wrong' I seriously cannot give you a very satisfying answer... like even if you come to me and say 'Kill yourself and save the earth', I really don't have a counter argument lol!

I have personally not explored much of political philosophy, but intend to do it sometime.
I do not consider logic, aesthetics and language to be a part of core philosophy, though logic has always held an attraction for me.
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Well, I'm getting confused which one attracts me more. Could you help me? well, I like practical philosophy where I read something like quotes or story then I think about that deeply and applied it in my life. Such kind of philosophy considered as what branch?
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Well, I'm getting confused which one attracts me more. Could you help me? well, I like practical philosophy where I read something like quotes or story then I think about that deeply and applied it in my life. Such kind of philosophy considered as what branch?
this type of philosophy is called metaphysics, if you check the first post you will notice what i said.

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Metaphysics investigates the nature of being and the world. Traditional branches are cosmology and ontology.
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I see so thinking about what others said still considered as investigate the nature of being and the world. I got the point and what's cosmology and ontology? what's the difference between those two?
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what's cosmology and ontology? what's the difference between those two?
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Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (cosmologia, κόσμος (cosmos) order + λογος (logos) word, reason, plan) is study of the Universe in its totality, and by extension, humanity's place in it.
for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmology


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Ontology is the study of being or existence and its basic categories and relationships. It seeks to determine what entities can be said to "exist", and how these entities can be grouped according to similarities and differences.
for more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontological


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all my life i have been dealing with logic base thinking and i already fall in love with it.

it is amazing to see people could do something beyond logic for something so minuscule.
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do you know any site where I could learn about metaphysics more for free? I'm very interested with this branch for sure.
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i think i interest in Philosophy of language.. because language n verbal option has many influence power to our world..
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do you know any site where I could learn about metaphysics more for free? I'm very interested with this branch for sure.

maybe you should check here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics

it contains lot of information about metaphysics.
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i personally support logic, see without that nothing stands, we can take a decision in our daily life also, be it a mathematical or phylosophical logic.
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