Philosophy Matrix
Field
Definition
Historical Developments
Schools Of Thought
Key Contributors
Principal Issues
Epistemology
Epistemology is the investigation into the grounds and nature of knowledge.
Found in the 1800’s
From Old Greece forward, Plato, Socrates, and developmental ideas.
Rationalism means the knowledge can be acquired through the use of reason and empiricism is obtained through experience. Externalism, empiricism, constructivism, and etc.
Rene Descartes
Immanuel Kant
Aristotle
Plato
Locke
Berkeley
Spinoza
The kind of knowledge of how can we know what we know, the reason why?
How is knowledge got?
Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and fundamental properties of being.
Idea owed to Aristotle. In Greece
Realism
Idealism
Materialism
Dualism
Monism
Aristotle
Aquinas
Locke
Kant
Plato
Berkeley
Hobbes
Descartes
Leibniz
Spinoza
What is being? What are its fundamental features and properties? Is there a God? Do people really have free will?
Moral
Moral is the philosophical study of moral judgments and value judgments about what is virtuous, just or unjust, morally right or wrong and etc. It is the area of philosophy concerned with how we should live our lives.
Idea owed to the Sophists. In Greece, forward to Socrates, Plato
Skepticism
Relativism
Subjectivism
Egoism
Hedonism
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Plato
Aesara
Aristotle
Aquinas
Berkeley
Hobbes
Hume
Kant
Moore
What is being a moral? What is moral judgment? What is good or evil?
Social
Social is the philosophical study of society and its institutions.
Greece
Individualism
Criticism
Modernism
Postmodernism
Marx
Hegel
Who gets what?
Political
Political seeks to find the best form of political existence, it