Prescriptive and Descriptive Approaches
Philosophy as a discipline inquires into “What is truth? What is good? What is beauty? What is existence? The disciplines within...
a way of inquiry
True beauty is good. Or is it? What is truth? What is good? What is beauty? Beauty is a restrictive and often problematic aesthetic. And what about “is”? What is it to exist? To be? Truebeautyisgood invites these questions. The name truebeautyisgood is a shorthand for the four fields of inquiry in classical philosophy: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics. The questions asked above, “What is truth? What is good? What is beauty? What is? What is existence?,” are pivotal questions that the four fields ask. They pose questions to which human beings are providing answers at nearly every moment of life. Human beings act on answers to these questions, and the answers are most often held as unseen assumptions as to how things, people, and the world really are. Truebeautyisgood applies a pragmatic lens, like Williams James, to the questions of philosophy as they are lived and answered by human beings today. This method included approaches found in both philosophy and religious studies; another way of conveying this approach is to say that truebeautyisgood applied the methods of religious studies to the questions of philosophy.