Major Ethical Philosophies

By Grace Joy Mallari
  • 384 BCE

    METAPHYSICS

    METAPHYSICS
    The History of Metaphysics. Metaphysics has signified many things in the history of philosophy, but it has not strayed far from literal reading of "beyond the physical."The term was invented by the 1st-century BCE head of Aristotle's Peripatetic school, Andronicus of Rhodes.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 potentiality and actuality.

  • EPISTEMOLOGY

    EPISTEMOLOGY
    Epistemology was created after the Middle Ages. John Locke (England 1632 - 1704) is to be equally credited and blamed with the idea that the issues of theory of knowledge of first philosophy, must come first in philosophy, although this became clear with Descartes Cartesian method. Epistemology is the study of knowledge.

  • AXIOLOGY

    AXIOLOGY
    The term was first used by Paul Lapie, in 1902, and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908. Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct.