Id like to be a wise person. Seems like a good life goal. I thought I d keep reading to see what wisdom had to do with philosophy because frankly I never would have put those two together. I couldn't see how the philosophy I d been reading and wisdom were related. The second thing the book explained was that philosophical systems could be broken down into three basic components.
All philosophies deal with ontology, epistemology, and ethics.
Now ethics that's a familiar word but the other two are not as common. Ontology deals with questions of Being. Epistemology deals with questions of Knowing. The Complete Idiots Guide to Philosophy said that every philosophical systems is going to deal with questions like theses. Questions about existence, knowledge and ethics.