 Philosophy is the discipline that looks for reasoned answers to certain very abstract

questions, usually left unasked in everyday life, about the nature of the universe and the
place in it of humans and everything distinctively human. These are questions that the
sciences usually do not tackle, though it may in the end turn out that scientific
discoveries are relevant to answering them.University of Missouri

 Epistemology is the study of knowledge. Epistemologists concern themselves with a

number of tasks, which we might sort into two categories. Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy

 Rational psychology, Metaphysical discipline that attempted to determine the nature of

the human soul by a priori reasoning. In Christian Wolff’s division of metaphysics,
rational psychology was one of three disciplines included under the heading of “special
metaphysics” (the others being rational cosmology and rational theology. Immanueal
Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, criticized the pretensions of rational psychology.
Britannica

 Metaphysics, the philosophical study whose object is to determine the real nature of
things to determine the meaning, structure, and principles of whatever is insofar as it is.
Although this study is popularly conceived as referring to anything excessively subtle
and highly theoretical and although it has been subjected to many criticism, it is
presented by metaphysicians as the most fundamental and most comprehensive of
inquiries, inasmuch as it is concerned with reality as a whole. Britannica

 Theodicy is a specific branch of theology and Philosophy, which attempts to solve The
Problem of evil the problem that arises when trying to reconcile the observed existence
of evil in the world with the assumption of the existence of a God who is fully good (or
benevolent) and who is also all-powerful (omnipotent). A "theodicy" also refers to any
attempted solution to this conundrum. NewWorldEncyclopedia

 Aesthetics, also spelled esthetics, the philosophical study of beauty and taste. It is
closely related to the philosophy of art , which is concerned with the nature of art and the
concepts in terms of which individual works of art are interpreted and evaluated.
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 Ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead
their lives.Ethics is concerned with what is good for individuals and society and is also
described as moral philosophy.The term is derived from the Greek word ethos which can
mean custom, habit, character or disposition. BBC