Theoretical philosophy
Template:Short description The modern division of philosophy into theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy[1][2] has its origin in Aristotle's categories of natural philosophy and moral philosophy.[3] The one has theory for its object, and the other practice.[1]
Overview
In Denmark,[4] Finland,[5] Germany,[6] the Netherlands,[7] Sweden,[8] and the United States,[9] courses in theoretical and practical philosophy are taught separately, and are separate degrees. Other countries may use a similar scheme—some Scottish universities, for example, divide philosophy into logic, metaphysics, and ethics—but in most universities around the world philosophy is taught as a single subject. There is also a unified philosophy subject in some Swedish universities, such as Södertörns Högskola.
Theoretical philosophy is sometimes confused with analytic philosophy, but the latter is a philosophical movement, embracing certain ideas and methods but dealing with all philosophical subject matters, while the former is a way of sorting philosophical questions into two different categories in the context of a curriculum.
Subjects of theoretical philosophy
- Epistemology
- Logic
- Philosophy of mathematics
- Philosophy of science
- Philosophy of language
- Philosophy of mind
- Metaphysics
References
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- ↑ a b Immanuel Kant, Lectures on Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 41 ("On Universal Practical Philosophy"). Original text: Immanuel Kant, Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften, Band XXVII – Moralphilosophie, 1. Hälfte, 1974, p. 243.
- ↑ Albert Schwegler, A History of Philosophy in Epitome, D. Appleton, 1877, p. 312.
- ↑ Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1.
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