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Philosophical theology – branch of theology and metaphysics that uses philosophical methods in developing or analyzing theological concepts. Natural theology – branch of theology and metaphysics the object of which is the nature of the gods, or of the one supreme God. In monotheistic religions, this principally involves arguments about the ...
Metaphysics is the study of the most general features of reality, including existence, objects and their properties, possibility and necessity, space and time, change, causation, and the relation between matter and mind. It is one of the oldest branches of philosophy. [1] [a]
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter, between substance and attribute, and between possibility and actuality.
The tree's roots are metaphysics, its trunk is physics, and its branches are all other sciences the principal of which are medicine, mechanics and morals. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This image is often assumed to show Descartes' break with the past and with the categorization of knowledge of the schools.
Vedanta philosophies discuss three fundamental metaphysical categories and the relations between the three. [14] [32] Brahman or Īśvara: the ultimate reality [33] Ātman or Jivātman: the individual soul, self [34] Prakriti or Jagat: the empirical world, ever-changing physical universe, body and matter [35]
The term cosmology was first used in English in 1656 in Thomas Blount's Glossographia, [2] and in 1731 taken up in Latin by German philosopher Christian Wolff in Cosmologia Generalis. [3] Religious or mythological cosmology is a body of beliefs based on mythological, religious, and esoteric literature and traditions of creation myths and ...
Philosophical literature by field (13 C) Philosophy by topic (3 C, 21 P): Philosophers by field ... Pages in category "Branches of philosophy"
Idealism in philosophy, also known as philosophical idealism or metaphysical idealism, is the set of metaphysical perspectives asserting that, most fundamentally, reality is equivalent to mind, spirit, or consciousness; that reality is entirely a mental construct; or that ideas are the highest type of reality or have the greatest claim to being considered "real".