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Branches of Philosophy

Metaphysics
Branch of philosophy concerned with the ultimate nature of existence. It perpetuates the Metaphysics of Aristotle, a collection of treatises...
Ethics
In philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard...
Logic
The systematic study of valid inference. A distinction is drawn between logical validity and truth. Validity merely refers to formal properties...
Existentialism
Any of several philosophic systems, all centered on the individual and his relationship to the universe or to God. Important existentialists of...
Epistemology
[Gr.,=knowledge or science], the branch of philosophy that is directed toward theories of the sources, nature, and limits of knowledge. Since...
Materialism
In philosophy, a widely held system of thought that explains the nature of the world as entirely dependent on matter, the fundamental and final...
Idealism
The attitude that places special value on ideas and ideals as products of the mind, in comparison with the world as perceived through the...