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Metaphysics:
Since physics actually means the physical world; Meta involves the non-material world, such as the mind and spiritual brief. According to Encarta Encyclopedia, "Metaphysics," is a branch of philosophy that entails the "nature of ultimate reality" (p.1) According to the Hummingbird N Company's, "The Metaphysical Sciences," the dictionary defines this as "A mental philosophy dealing with the nature and causes of being and knowing" (p.1). H. J. Patton (1948), say's in Immanuel Kent Ground Work of the Metaphysics of Morals, "so act that your will can regard itself at the same time universal law thought its maxim" (p.34). The interoperation was that the universal law was the human's as rational beings. Therefore, act, as you will but at the same time having the rational beings at the maximum of self-value. Patton goes on to say the rational being is having universal law at is maxim, is giving ones self-supreme value (p. 35). Therefore, Patton feels making decisions should be based on maxims of the universal law (p. 108). Which means all decisions should be made rationally.
According to "Socrates" in Encarta encyclopedia, he believed that his calling was to pursue philosophy, he pursued teaching and engaging in self-examination of ones soul (p.1). Jacques Maritain (1964), Moral Philosophy, Socrates questioned traditional norms (p. 6). He did not write any books and also did not establish a regular school of philosophy (Encarta, "Socrates" p.1). Plato, one of his dispels, portrayed Socrates as "hiding behind an ironical profession of ignorance, known as Socrates irony (Encarta, "Socrates," p.1). According to Castell, Brochert, and Zucker, in Introduction to Modern Philosophy, Socrates would engaged in debates with people, playing devils advocate, trying to invoke people to think about religion and other none material aspect (p. 3). Socrates got in trouble for this and was sentenced to exile, but verses doing this he commit...
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