Philosophy Map

The reasoning surrounding my map of philosophy relates to my understanding that the purpose or general goal of doing philosophy lies in finding (or getting closer to) Truth. Given this, I have more or less divided the major areas of philosophy into three ‘levels’ which I think represent the way in which philosophic inquiry approaches (seeks) Truth.

Level I: This kind of philosophy seeks to know what is. The things it seeks to know are a), the self, b), the world and c), the tools (like reason and language) that we use to know these things. The areas I have included:
A. The self
i. Ethical/Moral Philosophy
ii. Existential Philosophy
iii. Maybe: Philosophy of the Sages, some philosophy of psychology, some philosophy of religion.
B. The world
i. Philosophy of Science
ii. Epistemology
C. Tools of understanding
i. Philosophy of Language
ii. Basic Logic/Reasoning
iii. Second Order Logic (which could probably be placed in B as well)

Level II: This is a higher (or more complex) level of philosophy. In this level inquiry begins by knowing or presuming to already know what is. Instead, Level II deals with value claims regarding a), human constructs, i.e. social relations among people, and b), the self in the world. These areas of philosophy are primarily concerned with making value claims as to whether what is, is good or bad, right or wrong, and in what ways they should be changed or modified. (Note: It I had a greater knowledge of how these general areas I’ve listed were broken down into sub-areas, I would be more precise in assigning them to Level I vs. Level II. Hence there will probably to be overlap between the two).
A. Human Constructs
i. Political Philosophy
ii. Philosophy of Religion
iii. African American Philosophy
iv. Maybe: moral/ethical philosophy
B. Self in the World
i. Feminist Philosophy
ii. Taoism/Buddhism
iii. Sage Philosophy
iv. Environmental Philosophy
v. Maybe: Some existential philosophy, some classical (Aristotelian) Greek philosophy, and some philosophy of science.

Level III: I’m not entirely sure what belongs in this level, but I imagine it is where all the different spheres of philosophic inquiry attempt to get reconciled into one coherent worldview. This is again somewhat redundant as epistemological philosophy regarding knowledge also does this, but I do think that at this ‘level’ a more complex examination of knowledge in an attempt to find a greater Truth (and at the very least wisdom!), occurs. Therefore, the only philosophic area I’ve put in this level is metaphilosophy.