Personal philosophy and popular metaphysics, as is usually dealt with in religiously-oriented sites, theology, and New Age philosophies are better suited for categories in Religion and Spirituality categories. This includes psychic readings, ancient Egyptian religion, crystals, UFOs, and alien abductions, the I Ching, etc. Its traditional main branches are metaphysics, the study of the ultimate nature of reality, epistemology, the investigation of the origins and limits of knowledge, ethics, dealing with morality and justice, and aesthetics, the study of beauty in the arts. This category is only for bona fide academic departments. University and college departments and institutes of philosophy, many of them offering advanced degrees in philosophy.
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Chats and Forums The search for wisdom through open debate. Sites submitted to this category should be in some way interactive and accommodate public discussion of a philosophical nature. Many philosophical traditions of the past are now only studied in a historical manner. But philosophy is an ever-changing field, and responds to changes in society, religion, science, and technology. Current movements are all those philosophical movements, trends, schools of thought which are currently debated and pursued.