2012 Word Count 2011 Western Philosophers: Siddhartha Gautama, Confucius, Lao-Tzu. Philosopia is a Greek origin meaning “love of wisdom,” and it has three main branches: metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Metaphysics studies reality, epistemology studies knowledge, and ethics studies morality. These are our basics for understanding our famous western philosophers (Barker, Philosophy101). These philosophers include Buddha, Confucius, and Lao-Tzu. Buddha’s philosophy was on self achievement…
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