Then I will follow up this lecture with another on 'Foundations of Postmodern Philosophy of Science' based upon findings from the new sciences of Chaos and Complexity. The Structure of Philosophy. Aristotle took metaphysics as the body of knowledge about matters more general than any one given body of substantive knowledge. The nature of causality, actuality, teleology and other questions which transcend physics, biology chemistry, psychology and sociology would now be included. As we shall see, much mischief lurks in the conflation between the two.
Ethics deals with that which is good and that which is the right thing to do.
The word, 'ethics' means custom or usage. The word, 'moralis' was the Latin translation by Cicero of the word 'ethikos' used by Aristotle. Modern science severed ethics from the knowledge process under the assumption, rightly, that one could not derive a statement about what is good to do by from a statement about what is true. Aesthetics deals with that which is beautiful and universally appealing to the senses. This means that one cannot build a theory of elegant architecture, painting, poetry or music on symmetry, regularity, precision, uniformity or other neat and tidy terms so much beloved of modernists.