Five Branches of Philosophy

• the branch of philosophy concerned with existence.
• It is the foundation of a world view.
• It says whether the world is real, or merely illusion.
• Metaphysics leads to ways of thinking, esthetics, governmental system, and ethics.

• The belief that we cannot know anything.
• Everyone's mind is different.
• Everyone experiences events differently.
• Humans are the cause of existence.

• The belief that your own mental states are the only states.
• This means that only your self exists, nothing else.
• All is a creation of your imagination including other beings.
• Others, who may appear to be alive, are actually just projections of your own being.
• "He who sees everything as nothing but the Self, and the Self in everything he sees, such a seer withdraws from nothing.
• For the enlightened, all that exists is nothing but the Self, so how could any suffering or delusion continue for those who know this oneness?

• A form of skepticism that denies all existence.
• A doctrine holding that all values are baseless
• Belief that nothing can be known or communicated.

• All events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
• The belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.

• Reality is objective and external to the mind
• Knowledge is reliably based on observed objects and events.

• Sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of
  knowledge and thought.
• The application of this doctrine in logic, epistemology, and ethics.

• The ability to choose
• The power of making choices that are unconstrained.

• Reliance on reason as the guide for belief and action.
• The theory that the exercise of reason, rather than experience, authority, or spiritual revelation, provides the primary basis for knowledge.

• The primacy of observation in assessing truth
• Subjective arguments are meaningless.
• Also called logical empiricism.