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The question of the division of the sciences has a long history.

Aristotle, Boethius (d. ca. 525 A.D.), et al. divided philosophy as follows (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's Division & Methods of the Sciences):

PHILOSOPHY
    Speculative Sciences
        Natural Sciences
        Mathematics
        Metaphysics
    Practical Sciences
        Art
        Prudence

Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), whom Kant called "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers," identified metaphysics with philosophy itself, placing it first in his division of the sciences:

PHILOSOPHY (Metaphysics)
    General Metaphysics (Ontology)
    Special Metaphysics
        Metaphysics of Bodies
        Metaphysics of Spirits
            of Created Spirits
            of Uncreated Spirits

Also, sophistry is non-philosophy.

The question of the division of the sciences has a long history.

Aristotle, Boethius (d. ca. 525 A.D.), et al. divided philosophy as follows (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's Division & Methods of the Sciences):

PHILOSOPHY
    Speculative Sciences
        Natural Sciences
        Mathematics
        Metaphysics
    Practical Sciences
        Art
        Prudence

Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), whom Kant called "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers," identified metaphysics with philosophy itself, placing it first in his division of the sciences:

PHILOSOPHY (Metaphysics)
    General Metaphysics (Ontology)
    Special Metaphysics
        Metaphysics of Bodies
        Metaphysics of Spirits
            of Created Spirits
            of Uncreated Spirits

Also, sophistry is non-philosophy.

The question of the division of the sciences has a long history.

Aristotle, Boethius (d. ca. 525 A.D.), et al. divided philosophy as follows (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's Division & Methods of the Sciences):

PHILOSOPHY
    Speculative Sciences
        Natural Sciences
        Mathematics
        Metaphysics
    Practical Sciences
        Art
        Prudence

Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), whom Kant called "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers," identified metaphysics with philosophy itself, placing it first in his division of the sciences:

PHILOSOPHY (Metaphysics)
    General Metaphysics (Ontology)
    Special Metaphysics
        Metaphysics of Bodies
        Metaphysics of Spirits
            of Created Spirits
            of Uncreated Spirits

The question of the division of the sciences has a long history.

Aristotle, Boethius (d. ca. 525 A.D.), et al. divided philosophy as follows (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's Division & Methods of the Sciences):

PHILOSOPHY
    Speculative Sciences
        Natural Sciences
        Mathematics
        Metaphysics
    Practical Sciences
        Art
        Prudence

Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), whom Kant called "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers," identified metaphysics with philosophy itself, placing it first in his division of the sciences:

PHILOSOPHY (Metaphysics)
    General Metaphysics (Ontology)
    Special Metaphysics
        Metaphysics of Bodies
        Metaphysics of Spirits
            of Created Spirits
            of Uncreated Spirits

Also, sophistry is non-philosophy.

The question of the division of the sciences has a long history.

Aristotle, Boethius (d. ca. 525 A.D.), et al. divided philosophy as follows (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's Division & Methods of the Sciences):

PHILOSOPHY
    Speculative Sciences
        Natural Sciences
        Mathematics
        Metaphysics
    Practical Sciences
        Art
        Prudence

Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), whom Kant called "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers," identified metaphysics with philosophy itself, placing it first in his division of the sciences:

PHILOSOPHY (Metaphysics)
    General Metaphysics (Ontology)
    Special Metaphysics
        Metaphysics of Bodies
        Metaphysics of Spirits
            of Created Spirits
            of Uncreated Spirits

The question of the division of the sciences has a long history.

Aristotle, Boethius (d. ca. 525 A.D.), et al. divided philosophy as follows (cf. St. Thomas Aquinas's Division & Methods of the Sciences):

PHILOSOPHY
    Speculative Sciences
        Natural Sciences
        Mathematics
        Metaphysics
    Practical Sciences
        Art
        Prudence

Christian von Wolff (1679-1754), whom Kant called "the greatest of all dogmatic philosophers," identified metaphysics with philosophy itself, placing it first in his division of the sciences:

PHILOSOPHY (Metaphysics)
    General Metaphysics (Ontology)
    Special Metaphysics
        Metaphysics of Bodies
        Metaphysics of Spirits
            of Created Spirits
            of Uncreated Spirits