Branches of

Systematic Scholastic Philosophy

1. Speculative philosophy

1. Philosophy of nature

2. Philosophy of man

                                                             a.      Often called rational psychology

3. Philosophy of mathematics

4. Metaphysics, first philosophy, wisdom

                                                             a.      Ontology

                                                            b.      Natural theology or theodicy

                                                             c.      Epistemology

5. Practical philosophy

2. Logic

1. Ethics

2. Political philosophy

3. Philosophy of art

Psychology is a subalternate science in that it receives its principles from other sciences, e.g. epistemology (the branch of philosophy that studies the nature, methods, limitations, and validity of knowledge and belief), receives its principles from philosophical anthropology, logic and metaphysics.  This table illustrates psychology’s place within the branches of philosophy and higher sciences from which psychology draws its principles.