Meta Philosophy Essay

To quote Socrates, "to know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge." To know what this quote fully means, you must first understand the art of philosophy. The word philosophy comes from the Greek word "phílosophía" or in Greek, "φιλοσοφία", which means "the love of wisdom", whereas the word philosopher means "lover of wisdom" and is, therefore, someone who studies philosophy for an academic or personal matter.

Now really, philosophy is a love of wisdom that guides philosophers to explore the fundamental questions about who we are and why we're here. In philosophy, we are able to explore concepts like the meaning of life, knowledge, morality, reality, the existence of God, consciousness, politics, religion,

Meta-ethics examines ethical judgments and specifically tries to understand statements, attitudes, judgments, and ethical properties. Meta-ethics is not concerned with evaluating whether a specific choice is good or bad, rather it explains the nature and meaning of the issue. Within this, there are two types of meta-ethical views, moral realism, and moral anti-realism.

Moral realism is the belief that there are objective moral values. Therefore according to this viewpoint, evaluative statements (based on trying to form an idea on the value of something) are actually factual claims (claims proven by factual evidence) and whether these claims are true or false is independent of one's beliefs and feelings. Anti-realism is the belief that there are no such things as objective moral values and that there are three types of moral anti-realism. The first type, episode subjectivism, is based on the thought that ethical statements are actually subjective claims, second, non cognitivism, the notion that ethical statements are not genuine claims and the third, the idea that ethical statements are mistaken objective claims or the belief that nobody can have moral knowledge and the belief that ethical statements are usually

While the philosophy of art is indeed a part of aesthetics, aesthetics touches on much more. Not only does aesthetics focus on the value and nature of art, but it also involves the reactions to natural objects that become expressions of language, or objects that are deemed beautiful, or ugly.

Both of these topics are extremely vague, which leads to questions about how and why one considers something to be beautiful or ugly.

Deeper within aesthetics, we focus on taste, and within taste, we focus on the immediacy thesis. The immediacy thesis states that we do not conclude through reason that something is beautiful and instead we judge by our own taste and opinions that it is beautiful.

However, how one defines art is a persistent question throughout the philosophy of art and its meaning has constantly evolved from the days of Plato to around the 18th century. As the 20th century approached, there grew more controversy towards abstraction and appreciating form and towards the later decades of the 20th century, even abstraction was abandoned and philosophers of art argued that art should not have a tight