1. Metaphysics
Philosophy
Religion
Cosmology – Study of Origins
Teleology – Study of Design
Eschatology – Study of End of Time
Epistemology – Study Meaning of Words
Ontology – Study Nature of Existence
2. Time
Linear
and
Finite
Circular
Linear
and
Eternal
Beginning – End –
Cessation of Existence
Natural Physical
World All That Exists
Time Plus Chance
Equals Diversity and
Complexity Material
Universe All that
Exists
Beginning – End –
Continuation of Existence
Beyond This World – A
Natural and Supernatural
World Assumed
Never a Beginning –
Never an End – A Life
Death Cycle
Communism
Nazism
French Revolution Model
Hedonism
Create a Utopia on Earth
Post Modernism - relativism
Monotheistic
• Judeo-Christian
– Democracy
Lex Rex
• Islam -
Theocracy Far Eastern
Hinduism
Buddhist