Core Areas of Philosophy
The core areas of philosophy are:
- Aesthetics – The study of the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and the creation of personal kinds of truth.
- Epistemology – The study of the nature and scope of knowledge and belief.
- Ethics – The study of the right, the good, and the valuable. Includes study of applied ethics.
- Logic – The study of good reasoning, by examining the validity of arguments and documenting their fallacies.
- Metaphysics – The study of the state of being and the nature of reality.
- Ontology – The study of being and existence.
- Social philosophy – The study of questions about social behavior.
- Political philosophy – The study of the ideas that become political values.
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