Philosophy

myPhilosophy

• What? fundamental truths about what we perceive, love of wisdom

• Main Branches

  • my representation Logic/Reasoning Epistemology Metaphysics
    • Axiology - study of value, value theory
      • Ethics (moral)
      • Aesthetics - beauty (Beauty & Artistic)
    Political science (philosophy in practice)
  • main-stream representation Logic/argumentation/Reasoning Epistemology Ethics Metaphysics Aesthetics - beauty some say that it’s a sub-category

• phil movements

• Philosophers

• Epistemology & Ontology - shapes methods & methodology

  • Positivism
    • Ontology - there’s only 1 reality or truth
    • Epistemology - knowledge can be measured
      • concrete, tangible, objective
  • Constructivism - preferred by social sciences
    • multiple realities
    • knowledge needs to be interpreted to discover real meaning
  • pragmatism
    • reality is constantly debated & negotiated
    • knowledge to be examined w best tools to solve X problem
  • objectivism - preferred by natural sciences
    • atoms doesn’t change even if the person looking at them does
  • critical realism
  • interpretivism

• intresting ideas

  • Search and don’t believe
  • Finding happiness vs chasing it