Themoderndivision ofphilosophyintotheoretical philosophyandpractical philosophy[1][2]has its origin inAristotle's categories ofnatural philosophyandmoral philosophy.[3]The one hastheoryfor its object, and the otherpractice.[1]
Overview
editInDenmark,[4]Finland,[5]Germany,[6]theNetherlands,[7]Sweden,[8]and theUnited States,[9]courses in theoretical and practical philosophy are taught separately, and are separate degrees. Other countries may use a similar scheme—someScottishuniversities, for example, divide philosophy intologic,metaphysics,andethics—but in most universities around the world philosophy is taught as a single subject. There is also a unified philosophy subject in some Swedish universities, such asSödertörns Högskola.
Theoretical philosophy is sometimes confused withanalytic philosophy,but the latter is a philosophical movement, embracing certain ideas and methods but dealing with all philosophical subject matters, while the former is a way of sorting philosophical questions into two different categories in the context of acurriculum.
Subjects of theoretical philosophy
editReferences
edit- ^abImmanuel Kant,Lectures on Ethics,Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 41 ( "On Universal Practical Philosophy" ). Original text: Immanuel Kant,Kant’s Gesammelte Schriften,Band XXVII – Moralphilosophie, 1. Hälfte, 1974,p. 243.
- ^Albert Schwegler,A History of Philosophy in Epitome,D. Appleton, 1877, p. 312.
- ^Aristotle,Metaphysics,Book 1.
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