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Philosophy (Atheism)

Literally, "the love of wisdom." Philosophy is the study of the way things are, why they are that way, and how they should be. It can be broken down into several broad categories:
* Ethics - the branch of philosophy that deals with ideal behavior. This naturally invokes questions of good and evil, right and wrong, and so on.
* Political philosophy - a subset of ethics which deals with ideal government
* Epistemology - the branch that deals with what we know, what we can know, and how we know it.
* Metaphysics - the branch that deals with the fundamental nature of the Universe; how it acts, what is in it, why it acts the way it does, and why those things are in it.
* Ontology - a subset of metaphysics that deals with the nature of existence--what is real, what is not, and why things are or are not real.
* Aesthetics - the branch that deals with beauty--what is beauty, how do humans perceive it, et cetera.
* Teleology - the branch that deals with design and purpose--what underlying purpose and design to objects, or even the Universe as a whole, if any?
* Logic - the branch that deals with evaluating the truth of propositions.
* Philosophy of science - a subset of logic that deals with inductive logic within the experimental sciences
Some of the major philosophers to know for discussion on #atheism include: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Blaise Pascal, Voltaire, John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Soren Kirkegaard, Betrand Russel, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Ayn Rand.

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