EDU601 Glossary

EDU601 · Glossary ·  Aesthetics

The study of beauty, ugliness, and maybe even the sublime. The question, What is art?, is an aesthetical one

 Axiology

the study of the nature of value and valuation, and of the kinds of things that are valuable

 Epistemology

The study of belief, truth, knowledge, and rationality.

 Ethics

The study of good and evil, right and wrong, rules and virtues, character and vice, success and happiness.

 Idealism

In philosophy, idealism is the group of philosophies which assert that reality, or reality as we can know it, is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed, or otherwise immaterial.

 MetaPhysics

The study of being, or what really exists. All the ‘ultimate stuff’ questions are metaphysical ones. Meta means after or transcending.

 Ontology

the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.

 Philosophy

Love of wisdom.

 Pragmatism

Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that unpractical ideas are to be rejected

 Realism

Realism, at it simplest and most general, is the view that entities of a certain type have an objective reality, a reality that is completely ontologically independent of our conceptual schemes, linguistic practices, beliefs, etc.