Philosophy

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The paper focuses on three different branches of philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology and axiology. The paper explains how epistemology refers to the study that tries to go deeper into the meaning and scope of knowledge, axiology is concerned with values that people attach to things and metaphysics deals with the nature of reality that goes beyond the normal scope of science.

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"Metaphysics on the other hand transcends common knowledge. It is that branch of philosophy that deals with nature of reality that goes beyond the normal scope of science. It is by far the most important component of philosophy and the origin of it is credited to the works of Aristotle. Meta literally means, "after," but in philosophy it also means beyond or above thus indicating that metaphysics is a science that transcends physics. In his own writings, Aristotle called the study first philosophy, the science of being or ontology, and theology. It may be defined, tentatively as the science of the first principles of reality, or the theory of the structure and meaning of reality as a whole, or the theory of the nature of the cosmos."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Edgar Sheffield Brightman, A Philosophy of Religion (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1940)
• W. H. Walsh, Metaphysics (London: Hutchinson University Library, 1963)
• Paul K. Moser, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

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