What Is Your Philosophy?

What Is Your Philosophy?

PHL/215

April 27, 2011

What Is Your Philosophy?

The purpose of this dialogue is bringing new light on a few aspects of philosophy. This discussion contains the following criteria: defining the major philosophical areas of inquiry, a description of approaches to philosophical questions for each of the major philosophical areas of inquiry, an explanation of how philosophy and culture interact in the development of thought, and the major philosophical area of inquiry that best describes this writer.

Defining the Major Philosophical Areas of Inquiry and the Approach

There are four areas which Moore and Bruder discuss in the text: epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and ethics. This portion of the paper will look into each of these areas by defining and explaining the approach. The first area reviewed is epistemology.

Epistemology addresses question concerning knowledge. According to Moore and Bruder epistemology, “is the branch that explores the sources, nature, limits, and criteria of knowledge” (Moore & Bruder). This explains with an epistemology style, studying knowledge and how the conclusion of knowledge is implemented is appealing.

Moore and Bruder suggest metaphysics is “questions related to being or existence” (Moore & Bruder). As you see from the above study of epistemology that asks whether knowledge is possible, metaphysics takes it one step further by asking what that nature of the reality is. Metaphysics depicts the basic elements that establish if the knowledge acquired is real or fiction.

The next subject of inquiry focuses on ethics. There are four areas of the ethics style of philosophy: moral, social, political, and aesthetics philosophy. Moral philosophy will lead in this discussion.

Moral philosophy, or ethics, as explained by Moore and Bruder is the “philosophy of moral judgment” (Moore & Bruder). According to Webster’s Dictionary, moral is “relating to principles of right or wrong behavior”...