what exactly are these things???

Question

in each of the following subjects what exactly do they consist of and what is there to learn from them?

epistemology,

ethics

metaphysics

Answer 1

Epistemology is the study of what constitutes genuine knowledge.

Ethics is the study of the rights and wrongs of how we should live our lives.

Metaphysics is the study of existence and the essential nature of existing things.

You missed the most important one........LOGIC, without which we cannot study the other three properly.

Answer 2

epistemology, or theory of knowledge, is the study of the foundations of our understanding of the world and ourselves. What you would learn from studying epistemology is how and where your knowledge of the world and your self comes from; you would investigate what that knowledge is based on. People who study epistemology are interested in knowing how we understand our contexts of being in order to understand and/or change actions, and to device an ethics. When you study epistemology you would probably read Descartes or Wittgenstein.

Ethics is action; what right/wrong action is. Here epistemology does not come into play that much. What an ethicist cares about is whether your action is wrong or right when measured against a certain tradition of ethics, i.e. Christian ethics, Aristotelian ethics, Kantian ethics etc.

I'm not too familiar with metaphysics, sorry.

Answer 3

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. What knowledge consists of, where it can be found, how it correlates to reality or logic, and so on. It could be argued that knowing ABOUT knowledge at a very base level is just as valuable as knowing exactly how your senses work to bring you information (Kant once argued the latter).

Ethics is the study of morality and 'good'. Exactly what is the nature of good is the subject of a rather protracted discussion, but arguably if we ever figured it out we might be able to formulate our laws and our lives in such a way that they maximized the benefits we got out of them. Perhaps it goes without saying that most religious systems are also deeply concerned with ethics.

Metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality. It tries to discover what the true nature of the things around us are, how they fit together, and what their significance and meaning is. "What is the meaning of life?" is a metaphysical question more than any other (and an obviously popular one). Arguably most of science is a part of metaphysics, but metaphysics also asks things AROUND what science can discover.

Answer 4

Epistemology or theory of knowledge is the branch of philosophy that studies the nature and scope of knowledge and belief. The term "epistemology" is based on the Greek words "ἐπιστήμη or episteme" (knowledge or science) and "λόγος or logos" (account/explanation); it was introduced into English by the Scottish philosopher James Frederick Ferrier (1808-1864).
Much of the debate in this field has focused on analyzing the nature of knowledge and how it relates to similar notions such as truth, belief, and justification. It also deals with the means of production of knowledge, as well as skepticism about different knowledge claims. In other words, epistemology primarily addresses the following questions: "What is knowledge?", "How is knowledge acquired?", and "What do people know?".
There are many different topics, stances, and arguments in the field of epistemology. Recent studies have dramatically challenged centuries-old assumptions, and the discipline therefore continues to be vibrant and dynamic.

Ethics (from the Ancient Greek ἠθικός ēthikos, the adjective of ἤθος ēthos "custom, habit"), a major branch of philosophy, is the study of values and customs of a person or group and covers the analysis and employment of concepts such as right and wrong, good and evil, and responsibility. It is divided into three primary areas: meta-ethics (the study of the concept of ethics), normative ethics (the study of how to determine ethical values), and applied ethics (the study of the use of ethical values).

Metaphysics ( Greek: μετά (metá) = "after", φυσικά (physiká) = "those on nature", derived from the arrangement of Aristotle's works in antiquity) is the branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the nature of the world. It is the study of being or reality. It addresses questions such as: What is the nature of reality? What is humankind's place in the universe? Are colors objective or subjective? Does the world exist outside the mind? What is the nature of objects, events, places?
A central branch of metaphysics is ontology, the investigation into what categories of things are in the world and what relations these things bear to one another. The metaphysician also attempts to clarify the notions by which people understand the world, including existence, objecthood, property, space, time, causality, and possibility.
More recently, the term "metaphysics" has also been used to refer to "subjects which are beyond the physical world". A "metaphysical bookstore," for instance, is not one that sells books on ontology, but rather one that sells books on spirits, faith healing, crystal power, occultism, and other such topics.
Before the development of modern science, scientific questions were addressed in metaphysics under the natural philosophy branch. This practice continued until up to the time of Isaac Newton (who was a natural philosopher himself) straight through the 18th century (the term "science" simply meant knowledge prior to the 19th century). However from the 19th century onwards natural philosophy became science, thus changing the definition of metaphysics to mainly include subjects beyond the physical world. Natural philosophy and thus science can still be considered topics of metaphysics, depending on whether or not the definition of the term includes empirical explanations.

Answer 5

These are very serious subjects which cannot be answered just like that in single words!!! Better to differentiate one from another according to your requirement!!!

Answer 6

Some of the branches of philosophy.
Look up their meaning in a dictionary.

Answer 7

Limits,

Limits,

Limits.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits......Albert Einstein.

Sapere aude!