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Epistemology studies the nature of morality and values

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Albert Einstein Once said: "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" --The same might be said, according to the text, about the relationship between philosophy and science

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Contemporary analytic metaphysics is typically taken to have more modest aims than definitively settling on the final and complete truth about the underlying nature of reality.

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Epistemology is concerned with the nature of knowledge and justified belief.

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In denying us easy answers to big questions and undermining complacent convictions, philosophy liberates us from narrow minded conventional thinking and opens our minds to new possibilities.

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Metaphysical issues are concerned with the nature of reality.

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Metaphysicians analyze metaphysical puzzles and problems with the goal of better understanding how things could or could not be. Metaphysicians are in the business of exploring the realm of possibility and necessity

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Moral Relativism, perhaps the most popular opinion among people who have rejected faith, simply substitutes the commands of society for the commands of God

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Open mindedness is an essential characteristic of the Philosopher.

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Philosophical issues are as diverse and far ranging as those we find in the sciences, but a great many of them fall into one of three big topic areas: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Economics

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