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What is Philosophy?
I recently was reading a book and came across their answer to this question. It was simply put as the study of everything that counts. I basically remember it as another book put it. There are basically five different areas of philosophy with a few others intertwined.
1 - Logic: Whats valid or invalid
2 - Ethics: Whats wrong or right
3 - Epistemology: What do we really know, if anything
4 - Metaphysics: The roll of humans in the universe
5 - Aesthetics: What is beauty, judgement, etc
The others that are intertwined within all of these kinda in the middle would be as follows:
Ontology: The Study of being
Eschatology: End of line matters like death
Teleology: The study of an overall purpose
Idealism and Materialism are involved in all of this as well. I basically brought this up because I have wanted to talk and discuss all of this with someone or many people for the matter but its hard to talk to anyone about this, except hopefully here. This is all up for debate of course. Thanks!
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